Missionaries see little bodies floating upon the scum of the
ponds or thrown out by the roadside and half-eaten by the
wolfish dogs. It is not necessary to open the little bundle
of matting lying by the side of the city wall to know what it
contains. Shanghai has its hexagonal tower into which their
bodies can be cast. Nanking has its temple to which may be
brought any little dead body which the parents care not to bury
themselves.
(1601)