Archery Practice (From scanned copy of Chinese Stories ) While stationed as a missionary in the Kwangtung Province in Southern China, Adele M. Field heard many tales spoken in the Swatow vernacular by those who could not read or write. These tales furnished mental entertainment for her during many nights when travelling in a slow native boat, or sitting in a dim native hut. Field considered these "almond-eyed women and children" to be her "beloved companions in serious work and in needed recreation", and set about transcribing their stories to print. In a similar fashion to the Arabian Nights anthology, the forty stories contained in her book, Chinese Fairy Tales, the Romance of The Strayed Arrow we will read today runs through the whole volume to a climactic finale. Reading time: 9 minutes THE STRAYED ARROW IN the village of Grand Spur, there lived a poor couple, who had no children save one daughter, named Pearl. This little maid troubled her doting...