Page:Pekinese Rhymes (G. Vitale, 1896).djvu/44



NOTES

This song although very childish, yet is founded on the fact that chinese mothers-in-law are often unkind and sometimes even cruel to their daughters-in-law. 雙雙人兒 shuang$1$ shuang$1$ jen$2$'r, means a couple of persons, not four persons. 我家媳婦兒 uo$3$ chia$1$ hsi$2$ fu$4$'r, "the wife in my house" probably these words are meant to be