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fond parents can do for those who can be best spared.

to part with them by "deed of gift" into better circumstances, and by the same transaction to ameliorate their own condition for the time being.

Parents take as a rule such precautions as

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may be possible to secure proper treatment of the girls they have parted with the question of protection for boys does not arise in the same degree. The proper custom is to keep in some kind of touch with the girls and to have a voice, or at least an interest, in their ultimate marriage, for which the new family becomes partly responsible: but the cir- cumstances distances, difficulties of travel, inability to write, want of postal facilities have all combined to thin down the custom vanishing point. In the widespread disasters and troubles of the last few years, parents would commonly send their children even boys away in the hope of better things: in the absence of someone from the district to take them and dispose of them, it was

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not difficult to find an outsider. In either case, there was little possibility of keeping in touch; the children had to be taken far away to districts which were rich enough to take them and support them; but even this was preferable to the certain death that awaited them at home. The trend of the migration after the adjacent big cities and richer districts have been supplied is South, to the nearer countries where emigrant Chinese have done so well; and on this journey Hong Kong is almost Bound to come into the picture as a port of call if not as the home of many prosperous and charitable Chinese.

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