Children Play :
Big Mouth and Small Mouth - Chinese Characters
    Long long ago, there was a Big Mouth Giant who lived in the east side of a village. He did not eat meat or grain.
He only ate words. He ate one word a day.
    On the first day, He ate a word
small square (pronounced as Ko3). Big mouth giant ate a word small square
became a word go home (hway2)
     On the second day, he ate a word people (pronounced as ren2).
Big mouth giant ate a word people (ren2) became another word jail (cho2)
    On the third day, he ate a word number ten (shr2). Big mouth giant ate a word
number ten (shr2) became another word garden (tien2)
    On the forth day, he ate a word big (da4). Big mouth giant ate a word
big (da4) became another word because (yin1)
    On the west side of the village,there was a Small Mouth Kid who loved words so much.
However, his mouth is so small that no word can fit into his mouth. So he can only use words to
play an addition game.
One day, he added a word (pronounced as gee1) to his
mouth and became another word shout (jiau4).
    Next day, he added a word beg (chi3) to his
mouth and became another word eat (tsi1).
    Next day, he added a word bend (chan4) to his
mouth became another word blow (choa1).
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