. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. ^^~. 94 Nine Years in Nipon. CHAPTER VIII. Mitake San—TJie Sacred Mount of the Three Peaks. Bad Roads and Better Language—Spiders and Beetles—A Japanese Scare-crow—Night Storm in a Forest—A Dispirited Coolie—Sunday Quietand Questioning—Buddhist Teaching and Modern Science—Passportsand Preaching—A Picturesque School—Sick Cicadas—Art and Nature—Brambles and Barefeet. AFTER a hard day and nights work we got off onemorning in the hot season long before daybreak withour pale sick-worn little ones. We were quickly hurriedthrough d
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. ^^~. 94 Nine Years in Nipon. CHAPTER VIII. Mitake San—TJie Sacred Mount of the Three Peaks. Bad Roads and Better Language—Spiders and Beetles—A Japanese Scare-crow—Night Storm in a Forest—A Dispirited Coolie—Sunday Quietand Questioning—Buddhist Teaching and Modern Science—Passportsand Preaching—A Picturesque School—Sick Cicadas—Art and Nature—Brambles and Barefeet. AFTER a hard day and nights work we got off onemorning in the hot season long before daybreak withour pale sick-worn little ones. We were quickly hurriedthrough dark miry streets, by mossy walled moats, andthrough weary long drawn suburban rows of woodendwellings, the inhabitants of which were just stirring upinto activity. Now and again our perspiring jinrikishamen would stop to have a thimble-like cup of pale tea,a tiny pipeful of tobacco, and a spasmodic colloquy,chiefly composed of very significant but to Westernears mild ejaculations about the quality of the roadswhich, according to the profession, m
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