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Show her) and the feet of a man she is "neither one nor the other," so people say. Indeed, I once heard a little fellow, just able to lisp his baby talk, say as he saw his great grandmother of eighty-four putting on the shoes for the unbound feet, "How is it that you, a woman, are putting on a man's shoes?" Poor innocent child! Evidently he thought the deformed foot belonged to a woman as did the natural sized foot to a man. As I looked at Mrs. Li, who sat at the end of the bench, I smiled at the recollection of when she unbound her feet. She is rather a proud woman, but more or less of a leader in the church. She has four daughters, the eldest of whom is in the P'ang Chuang school, and the feet of the three other little girls are not bound. It seems strange that she, the mother, should hold on to custom and hesitate in helping on the reform. It was while I had a class in an outstation that |