Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . elves by putting on their rain-coats — not mackin-toshes, dear reader, or rubbermonstrosities such as we wearat home, but a cheap and con-venient affair made of rice-straw, which sheds the waterlike the feathers of a thatched, our jinrikishaA man looked like an animatedhaystack. His rain cloak cov-ered him almost from head toheels. In the crowded streethe was continually shouting,at the top of his voice, Hi-hi, which may be translatedinto English, I suppose, asLook out there, Get outof
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . elves by putting on their rain-coats — not mackin-toshes, dear reader, or rubbermonstrosities such as we wearat home, but a cheap and con-venient affair made of rice-straw, which sheds the waterlike the feathers of a thatched, our jinrikishaA man looked like an animatedhaystack. His rain cloak cov-ered him almost from head toheels. In the crowded streethe was continually shouting,at the top of his voice, Hi-hi, which may be translatedinto English, I suppose, asLook out there, Get outof the way, in order to cleara passage for our little procession. Some of the Japanese maidens who passed us in thestreet were very pretty, though I wished they might learnto walk more gracefully instead of shuffling along in anawkward manner in their clumsy wooden shoes. After a half-hours ride, we arrived at last at the privatehouse where the class-meeting was to be held. Beforeentering we sat on the doorstep, took off our boots, and puton some soft felt slippers which we had brought with A JAPANESE MAIDEN. ? . ??
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