Chinese New Year

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Title:     Chinese New Year
Author: Eunice Tietjens [More Titles by Tietjens]

Mrs. Sung has a new kitchen-god.
The old one--he who has presided over the household
    this twelvemonth--has returned to the
    Celestial Regions to make his report.
Before she burned him Mrs. Sung smeared his mouth
    with sugar; so that doubtless the report will be
    favorable.
Now she has a new god.
As she paid ten coppers for him he is handsomely
    painted and should be highly efficacious.
So there is rejoicing in the house of Mrs. Sung.
  Peking

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Eunice Tietjens's poem: Chinese New Year

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