Bells for a Chinese Donkey

Five-year-old Kwei-li lived in a village on the seacoast of China, called Locust Village because of the locusts that sang in the pine trees in the square. When Kwei-li's father and her brother Shan brought back a donkey from the fair, she was overjoyed. She had seen just such a donkey ridden by a rich little girl whose summer home was on the beach. The only difference was that the new donkey had no jingling bells - and Kwei-li longed for them