Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . wl and cups, fire tongs and bronze charcoal basket, one byone, she carried them into the next room, pacing most sol-emnly each time over the six steps between the fire hole andthe door; opening the door in the same way with bothhands, and then coming back to say Adieu to her guests. By this time our hostess had relaxed a little; a weightwas evidently off her mind; she had gone through a severeordeal once more and had acquitted herself most teacups had no reason to be ashamed of her
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . wl and cups, fire tongs and bronze charcoal basket, one byone, she carried them into the next room, pacing most sol-emnly each time over the six steps between the fire hole andthe door; opening the door in the same way with bothhands, and then coming back to say Adieu to her guests. By this time our hostess had relaxed a little; a weightwas evidently off her mind; she had gone through a severeordeal once more and had acquitted herself most teacups had no reason to be ashamed of her, and sheeven smiled a dignified smile, and condescended to chatmost graciously. We could not, however, remain for anygossip, but pressing our crowns to the matting once more,with many a bow and genuflection, we backed out of thepresence of etiquette personified, put on our shoes, bobbedthrough the low Japanese door, and were able to stand erectand take a good informal breath of fresh air, thanking Godthat no such thing as ceremonial tea existed in the worldof nature into which we had INDUSTRIOUS AND HAPPY FARMERS. 239 The journey from- Tokio to Kioto, from the modernsecular capital to the ancient sacred capital of Japan, was amost delightful one. Such a panorama of mountain andvalley, seashore and bluff, beautifully cultivated rice fieldsand garden spots, forests of bamboo, orange groves, and teaplantations, mulberry bushes and persimmon orchards, ricefields and vegetable gardens, would be hard to find in anyother section of the globe. England and France with theircareful culture are not so thoroughly tilled as the arable in
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