When I was a child . t toYada River with a school servant called was a tunnel for water some three hundredyards under the Yada River. Masu-San and Ibegan to swim near the gate of that tunnel. Sud-denly I realized that I could swim quite well. So Iwanted to swim through to the other gate. Butabove the river there was a bridge and road withfull traffic, and I did not want to come back throughthis bridge quite naked. I asked Masu-San to takeall my kimonos to the other side. Masu-San refused, and said it was too dangerousfor me to swim through the tunnel. I said, O,you coward rabbit
When I was a child . t toYada River with a school servant called was a tunnel for water some three hundredyards under the Yada River. Masu-San and Ibegan to swim near the gate of that tunnel. Sud-denly I realized that I could swim quite well. So Iwanted to swim through to the other gate. Butabove the river there was a bridge and road withfull traffic, and I did not want to come back throughthis bridge quite naked. I asked Masu-San to takeall my kimonos to the other side. Masu-San refused, and said it was too dangerousfor me to swim through the tunnel. I said, O,you coward rabbit ! If you object to take mykimonos, it would not make any diflerence to shall swim all the same. 122 MISSIONART SCHOOL EXPERIENCES 123 I was going to jump in. He caught me fast andshouted Police, police! in his despair. A policeman was really coming. So we both puton our kimonos in a great hurry and ran I was told that the tunnel had a whirl-pool under the river, and it was a most dangerous ?/x. ? ?? vt -t i«, •! if^
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