Queer things about Japan . ese streetis the radish-hawker. The radishes are about twofeet long, and are as thick as lean vegetable-marrows. Next come the police, who are dressedlike ships stewards, with army chaplains caps, andcavalry sabres. The Japanese policeman is alwaystaking notes. I imagine that he is fined if he goeshome at night without having his note-book general victim is a riksha boy, who holds hishat in front of him and bows between every is of high birth and low stature, but thatdoes not matter since he understands Jujitsu. Buthe never has to use his supernatura
Queer things about Japan . ese streetis the radish-hawker. The radishes are about twofeet long, and are as thick as lean vegetable-marrows. Next come the police, who are dressedlike ships stewards, with army chaplains caps, andcavalry sabres. The Japanese policeman is alwaystaking notes. I imagine that he is fined if he goeshome at night without having his note-book general victim is a riksha boy, who holds hishat in front of him and bows between every is of high birth and low stature, but thatdoes not matter since he understands Jujitsu. Buthe never has to use his supernatural powers; hisauthority, like the size of his white gloves, isunlimited. The populace grovel before him. Toforeigners outside of Treaty Iorts he used to be anuisance, because there was nothing so handy forfilling up his note-book as copies of passports anddescriptions of the ancestry and early life of red-haired barbarians. But where the foreigner had aright to be without passports, and in these days of4G To li/.K OA p. A toysellor, and To back (/h w ^7.
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