By Nippon's lotus ponds; pen pictures of real Japan . young striplingsas well as venerable old sea veterans plunged intothe water and with great difiiculty moved the netslowly forward. The net broke; and these fisher-men, much of the time under water, held up thetorn meshes above the surface, while others, withhuge bamboo baskets, hastily lugged the booty up tothe shore and dumped it into empty boats. But oh,the millions of sardines that escaped! The wavesalong the beach were alive with them. Delightfulmust have been the feast of the boys and girls dwell-ing in every home in that vicinity who
By Nippon's lotus ponds; pen pictures of real Japan . young striplingsas well as venerable old sea veterans plunged intothe water and with great difiiculty moved the netslowly forward. The net broke; and these fisher-men, much of the time under water, held up thetorn meshes above the surface, while others, withhuge bamboo baskets, hastily lugged the booty up tothe shore and dumped it into empty boats. But oh,the millions of sardines that escaped! The wavesalong the beach were alive with them. Delightfulmust have been the feast of the boys and girls dwell-ing in every home in that vicinity who swoopeddown upon the beach with pots and all sorts ofvessels to pick up the sardines washed up in heapson the sand. Boat after boat was filled, and yet itseemed so long till the nets were emptied; feebleold men continued working in the cold deep till theywere blue and trembling and utterly exhausted. This was a red-letter day—and a big, bright-redflag in the shape of a fish was hoisted on the these hunters of the sea, unusual success is. FIERY PHANTOM SHIP 81 generally followed by feasting and drinking to sea they went in a big boat, rowed by someten men. Red banners floated in the air, and thecrowd, almost more than the craft could carry,lazily tossed about on the water, shouting and sing-ing their unmelodious ditties. But at night thisscene was far more splendid w^hen the masts andthe rigging of the boat were strung with glowingred paper lanterns, appearing to the stranger likea fiery moving phantom upon the dark waves of thedeep. Take the fisherman where you wiU, he is alwaysa most interesting character. Grand the familiarscene when, on some autumnal evening, downthrough the bushy limbs of long-leaved pine trees,from a moonless sky stars gleam in regal splendour,and through the murky twilight the eye sweepingover the bay near our home^ from headland to head-land and beyond, gazes upon a thousand starrytwinkling lights which mark a thousand fisher sam-pa
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