Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

was at a poht where it was on the rise, not going down. I There were
guards there or guides I should say and we were helped ug onto the Wall.
To travel upwards it was quite a pull for me, and I got t@ the place
where I couldn't go any farther, but I was on the wall. (chuckle) An
old couple who had been missicnaries in ChM for forty qars had never
seen the wall. They had been in another part of China there were a
lot of things they wanted to see before they went back tc( the states,
where they werre headed. So they could go skiwrdng right Pp that wall,
of cowlse it's quite wide, but I couldn't do it. The
could conpare it with today fm me is that I cantt get
because the flrst step is too high. Then on the way t
coming back mybe, we saw a place where they mde pott
. It was more or less just a shed with soft dirt,
in a little shed, I would say it was about twelve by
m was sittbg fn the middle, standing in the middle.
his legs so that the one leg that he was kneading the do
other one stood in the center, just stood still and t
spot. The other went around working the mud, I call
t
Q. You mean he stood on one leg and worked his mud with he other leg?
A. Yes, all mund, kneading it, getthg all of the
it, all the little knots. men they were ready to
eventually. Of course they added som thhgs I gue
but that was very interesting to me. Then another
on the Wall. See these cities were old and one reason
Great Wall was because they didn't want races, people c
West to take over their properties. They had had that
reason the wall was built, to keep these vast and e
were, they would take their land away. We had a pi
Peking. Now that wall too was wide and ran around
I have pictures of that, not of the picnic. But th
could see far and wide too. Another time we went t
would have a guide sometims who could speak kglis
lot. A woman who was lrarried and wanted to have c
children, she would throw-there were all kinds of
that were on display throughout China . . .
Q. You man camred elephants?
A. Yes. If the woman threw a rock up to land on the ele hea and
it didn't corn back, then she was going to have a baby, s
Well that was just one little thing. Another thing was tl@t always when
they bury a body, they always leave a little hole to the gutside, a little
pathway to the outside, just a bored hole, bored up like
spirits corn and go. Of course they pay a pat deal of
dead, more than in life I think in som cases.
for instance now you take downtown Shanghai.
bought ahnch dress, it was a foml dress.
to, he got ahold of a young Irish reporter.
took m around som .
Q. Is Shanghai a beautiful cil~y?
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