. Diaries and letters. -s,—fairy maidens and ghosts. As I look-ed at his beautiful pale face and weirdly frailfingers, I could not help fearing for him,-—fcaringr that he might soon become a littleghost. I have not seen him now for more than twotiionths. He has been very, very ill; and hisKrncTs are so weak that the doctor has for-bidden him to converse. But Adzukizawa hasbjen to visit him, and brings me this transla-tion of a Japanese letter which the sick boy I I. delicate j*^;|iipc7):^0, |iv>o 2. :(!^ (. XJEl^lttfWii — !»■: — ibmA^io^on zhkmmL-^ ^^^ii^ii^tti — i86 — wrote and pasted upon
. Diaries and letters. -s,—fairy maidens and ghosts. As I look-ed at his beautiful pale face and weirdly frailfingers, I could not help fearing for him,-—fcaringr that he might soon become a littleghost. I have not seen him now for more than twotiionths. He has been very, very ill; and hisKrncTs are so weak that the doctor has for-bidden him to converse. But Adzukizawa hasbjen to visit him, and brings me this transla-tion of a Japanese letter which the sick boy I I. delicate j*^;|iipc7):^0, |iv>o 2. :(!^ (. XJEl^lttfWii — !»■: — ibmA^io^on zhkmmL-^ ^^^ii^ii^tti — i86 — wrote and pasted upon the wall above liisbed :— Thou, my Lord-Soul, dost govern knowest that I cannot novv- govern ni)--self. Deign,^ I pray thee, to let me be curedspeedily. Do not suffer me to ^speak me to obey in all things the commandof the physician, This ninth day of the eleventli month ofthe twenty-fourth year of Meiji. * From the sick body of Shida to his _ i87 -- 4a>i^- L7jo — i88 —. XIX September 4, 1891. HE long- summer vacation Isover; a new school yearbegins/ There have been manychanges. Some of the boysI taught are dead. Others have graduatedand gone away from Matsue forever. Someteachers, too, have left the school, and ihpirplaces have been filled; and there is a newDirector. And the dear good Governor has gone—been transferred to cold Nilgata in the north-west.^ It was a promotion. But he had ruledIzumo for seven years, and everybody lovedhim, especially, perhaps, the students, wholooked upon him as a father. All the popula-tion of the city crowded to the river to bid tm »• ^v^miA^tm^^^m^C^ni)^¥(^^^t?j — l8o — imii^^no ^n-^hono Li^LHtAlXlWm Of:o 2. SlilSJ^ttg^ northwest i Lt:ill northeast 0|;^<r|p igo — him farewell. The streets through which hepassed on his way to take the steamer, thebridge, the wharves, even the roofs werethronged with multitudes eager to see his facefor the last time. Thousands were as t
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