Like butter wouldn't melt (by Anon)

This boy, Zhang Zihan, looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth but that's only when he's got his angel face on for Granny. We refer to him as "monster child", though not to his face of course. It's also an improvement on the first name we had for him. That might seem harsh but little Zhang does enjoy behaving like a little monster. Nevertheless, we take every effort to include him, should he behave himself - that is, not beating up students, breaking ducks' legs [see distorted right leg of this poor victim], starving dogs, using tortoises as flying machines or being foul-mouthed. As a result of a one-month LEAF family socialisation programme he's better behaved in our company and even apologised to a student today for hitting her, just so that I would answer his question. There's not much we can do for the dog and duck though. This quacker's brother went in the pot last week and, even though it insists on following him around like a surrogate sibling, it's got a pretty miserable life as his pet. We keep him well away from Jackson Rabbit.

I'd say there's a very different attitude to animals here, by and large. As Mr Affo (the owner of the fluffy white dog called Affo (Arthur)) said: "I think about my animal's feelings but other people don't care about that." Freda, Lao Yang and Edie were joined by a gang of small children at the pond today. They were all excited to have found a small, wild mouse. Freda and Edie squatted down to watch it while the other children were shouting, "Deat it to death" [in Chinese]. Despite Freda's efforts to rescue the little creature, it was dead within five minutes, bashed to death by the butt of a plastic machine gun.  

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