Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . ir wheeled over a parlor carpet. But get a rattlety-bang affair such as one sometimes finds, with a low backthat cuts the spine in two, rattling wheels and a semi-defunctman to pull it, and the sensation of jinrikisha riding is any-thing but agreeable. However, most of these men arestrong, quick, and polite. They will tuck you into theirlittle vehicle with the red blanket around your feet, andstart off as merrily as if going to their own wedding. Espe-ciallv when several are hired at the same tim
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . ir wheeled over a parlor carpet. But get a rattlety-bang affair such as one sometimes finds, with a low backthat cuts the spine in two, rattling wheels and a semi-defunctman to pull it, and the sensation of jinrikisha riding is any-thing but agreeable. However, most of these men arestrong, quick, and polite. They will tuck you into theirlittle vehicle with the red blanket around your feet, andstart off as merrily as if going to their own wedding. Espe-ciallv when several are hired at the same time for the same 228 HILARIOUS JINRIKISHA MEN. journey, they seem to take genuine delight in their work. Ihave seen ten of these men, two in a jinrikisha, hired by aparty of five, when roads were rough and time limited,scamper along the road with the utmost glee, as boys justlet out of school go home for a long holiday. They wouldcrack jokes one to another, laugh uproariously, and thensubside into a steady jog trot and monotonous low chant,which, beginning with the head man, would be passed back. A JINRIKISHA. to the next, by him to the next, and so on until the last manin the procession took up the strain and passed it forwardalong the line. Their endurance is perfectly wonderful. Many a timehave I seen them trot off, a good hour at a time, up hill anddown dale, pulling their heavy loads without a single breath-ing spell, while at the end of the journey I do not rememberto have seen one exhausted or winded. How would it dofor our college athletes to take lessons in training fromthese Japanese jinrikisha men ? A missionary friend of mine ^ CONVENIENT POSITION FOR THE WAITRESS. 229 tells me that on one occasion, when pressed for time, his jin-rikisha-man made seventy-five miles in one day over a roadfar from the best, and was by no means utterly exhausted atthe end of the day. On the following day he was quitefresh and ready for another long pull. This journey, thoughof course exc
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