The Japanese fairy book . g-place in the tree and, kneeling down before the oni,said : I have been waiting for a long time for you to speak ! Ah, you are the old man of yesterday, said the demonchief. Thank you for coming, you must dance for us soon. The old man now stood up and opened his fan and beganto dance. But he had never learned to dance, and knewnothing about the necessary gestures and different thought that anything would please the demons, so he justhopped about, waving his arms and stamping his feet,imitating as well as he could any dancing he had ever seen. The oni we
The Japanese fairy book . g-place in the tree and, kneeling down before the oni,said : I have been waiting for a long time for you to speak ! Ah, you are the old man of yesterday, said the demonchief. Thank you for coming, you must dance for us soon. The old man now stood up and opened his fan and beganto dance. But he had never learned to dance, and knewnothing about the necessary gestures and different thought that anything would please the demons, so he justhopped about, waving his arms and stamping his feet,imitating as well as he could any dancing he had ever seen. The oni were very dissatisfied at this exhibition, and saidamongst themselves : How badly he dances to-day ! Then to the old man the demon chief said : Your performance to-day is quite different from the dance How an Old Man Lost his Wen. 281 of yesterday. We dont wish to see any more of such will give you back the pledge you left with us. You mustgo away at once. With these words he took out from a fold of his dress the. t#*r There was now a great Wen on the Right Side of his Face as on the Left. lump which he had taken from the face of the old man whohad danced so well the day before, and threw it at the rightcheek of the old man who stood before him. The lumpimmediately attached itself to his cheek as firmly as if it hadgrown there always, and all attempts to pull it off were wicked old man, instead of losing the lump on his left 282 Japanese Fairy Book. cheek as he had hoped, found to his dismay that he had butadded another to his right cheek in his attempt to get ridof the first. He put up first one hand and then the other to each sideof his face to make sure if he were not dreaming a horriblenightmare. No, sure enough there was now a great wen onthe right side of his face as on the left. The demons had alldisappeared, and there was nothing for him to do but to returnhome. He was a pitiful sight, for his face, with the two largelumps, one on each side, looked
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