The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . ange way;— and wuth the rain there was much persons in Tokyo were killed by the imagined that the war had something to do withthe disturbed state of the atmosphere. After aheavy rain we generally had the news of a victory;so, when it began to rain hard, I used to say, *Ah!the Russians are in trouble again! We went to Yaidzu for about twenty days, andgot strong and brown. Iwao was positively blackwhen he returned. He learned to swim a little, andwas able to cross the river on his back — where itwas quite deep; — but the sea
The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . ange way;— and wuth the rain there was much persons in Tokyo were killed by the imagined that the war had something to do withthe disturbed state of the atmosphere. After aheavy rain we generally had the news of a victory;so, when it began to rain hard, I used to say, *Ah!the Russians are in trouble again! We went to Yaidzu for about twenty days, andgot strong and brown. Iwao was positively blackwhen he returned. He learned to swim a little, andwas able to cross the river on his back — where itwas quite deep; — but the sea was rather too roughfor him. We found that seventeen men of Yaidzuhad been summoned to the war, — including severalpleasant acquaintances. Your good mother writes to us; and all your house-hold seem to be as well and as happy as could beexpected, — considering the natural anxieties ofthe war. Even for me, a stranger, the war hasbeen trying; it was a long time before I could getused to the calling of the newspaper-lads, selling. LAFCADIO HEARNS GRAVE i I * ?.V-h #} X- TO H. FUJISAKI 517 extras (gogwai). But the people of Tokyo havebeen very cheerful and brave. Nobody seems tohave any doubt as to the results of the campaign. I am still hoping to see you next spring, or atlatest in summer. For this hope, however, I haveno foundation bevond the idea that Russia willprobably find, before long, that she must think ofsomething else besides fighting with Japan. Thecommercial powers of the world are disturbed byher aggression; and industrial power, after all, ismuch more heavy than all the artillery of the foreign sympathy really exists is withJapan. In any event Russia must lose Manchuria,I fancy. What strange and unimagined experiences youmust have been passing through. Since the timeof the great war between France and Germany,there were never such forces opposed to each otheras those that met at Liaoyang. It seems to me awonderful thing that I am able to send
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