ABSTRACT
The shops are a mixture of European architecture and Chinese decoration, which runs into rich and elaborate carving and gilding. The Chinese are very expert quarrymen, and cut out by iron or wooden wedges great blocks of granite, the wedge-holes having been prepared by iron chisel-headed bolts. The incident was the means of demonstrating the organizing capacity of the Chinese. Although Hong Kong is a British possession it is essentially a Chinese city. However content the adult Chinaman may be with sedentary amusements, the energy of youth is in full force in the Chinese schoolboy. He is rapidly acquiring a taste for European games, such as cricket and football, but he has always played the game of hopscotch, but little differing from the game played in an English village. This is played solely with the feet, the shuttlecock being kicked from one to the other with extraordinary dexterity.
