At this tender age, it is better for a wedding taskmaster to provide the whole bundle. Too many decisions for you to make.

Mother: I’m grateful I attended cotillion, a class where a woman learns a bundle of feminine social skills from a taskmaster at a tender age. / Daughter: I’m afraid I appeared tender when my taskmaster bundled on new assignments, and I winced.

travel tour guide with banner and kerchief

mountain top religion is a kind of worship

alternative breakdown: 一+冂+丨+4丶 ceiling + hood + stick + 4 drops

component derivative: ⻗ *weather “雨字头“

Far Away Buried Child: This family had to bury their child far away from home on the road.

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War stories can get stretched. This persona tells of the time he fell a tree with his rifle.

This tank ran over a turkey and lopped off its head.

handpick antiques

Thumbs up for inner garments!

“Water, water everywhere…” and not a drop to drink in Shanghai

a drop of sunshine: white light

as a component: “白字旁”

exhausted from measuring ice over and over because it is melting

alternatively: 尸 + \ + 冫corpse +slash + ice, frozen body, autopsy determined cause of death was exhaustion

Seven in many cultures symbolizes wholeness or everything: seven days of the week, seven notes in the scale. Think of a knife diving everything into seven parts.

sign in the woods prohibits the building of altars

“What in the world is going on here?” (when you see your persona with a needle).

“Yuan and the Ape”  Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe wrote the first modern detective story, not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? It is called “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Well, in our story, “Murder in Jianhe Lu” a man named Yuan is gagged with a scarf and buried alive. The detective is clued in to the true murderer, an ape, when witnesses all think they overheard a different language being spoken in Yuan’s backyard, and animal hair is found on the body. Moral: If neighbors are going to snoop, they should be more thorough and look, not just listen. (Fables)

grain and children have seasons

grain produces "children" (seeds) in season

A carcass was made incomplete by a machine gun.