. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. their work,even in an unintelligible language. None of them knewa word of English, but it was clear that they were beingtaught efficiently to garner some of the best results ofmodern cosmopolitan civilization. They used the Arabicnumerals as being more convenient, and had good mapsand diagrams on the walls. The teacher himself was a newarrival, and had been educated in Tokio. He and hiswife felt lonely in such a dreamy rustic neighbourhood,and he was longing for a sphere with greater stir and bustle. In a little the goodlady hurried
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. their work,even in an unintelligible language. None of them knewa word of English, but it was clear that they were beingtaught efficiently to garner some of the best results ofmodern cosmopolitan civilization. They used the Arabicnumerals as being more convenient, and had good mapsand diagrams on the walls. The teacher himself was a newarrival, and had been educated in Tokio. He and hiswife felt lonely in such a dreamy rustic neighbourhood,and he was longing for a sphere with greater stir and bustle. In a little the goodlady hurried in with somefresh country eggs—a treat toany one who is accustomedto the fishy flavour of thoseproduced on the fowls were of unusual sizeand vigour. The teacher had arrangeda little excursion for nextmorning, so I was up at cock-crow, and found him alongwith a troupe of bright-facedmerry big boys waiting for mewhen I arrived at the school-room. His kind spousepressed some very eatablelittle dumplings on me, whichwere of good service before I. TVMi-uilUk|fj^^,,, Aupler. 124 Nine Years in Nipon. had gone far. We crossed the rushing Katsura, herefamous for its fine ai which are caught with Hve bait, con-sisting often, as the teacher told me, of the young of thesame species, usage quite as bad as seething a kid in itsmothers milk, and certainly not what one would expectin a Buddhist country. But modern Buddhism does notstrictly forbid either fish or wine, though you may see onany temple court-yard notices forbidding the carriage ofthose popular commodities through the sacred people whisper that they may be taken intothe enclosure, however, without any serious penalty beingincurred. The ai is a large fish when full grown, and re-sembles salmon a little. The object of our little expedi-tion was to visit a great dark basaltic rock resembling thaton which Edinburgh Castle is so grandly perched. Itssteep sides are thickly wooded, and we found it har
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