. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. A < DHHLKK. balancing themselves on the tops of high trees and in lAiilding bridges inmid-air by locking their noses together, to make their children walk overthe narrow way, or spring from one span to another. Once it so happened that the son of a great warrior at the court inKyoto, named Sakato, fell inti; the pcjwer and teachings of these wilddenizens of the green woods of Mount Oyama. His father had foughtthe good fight for his chief, and, being
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. A < DHHLKK. balancing themselves on the tops of high trees and in lAiilding bridges inmid-air by locking their noses together, to make their children walk overthe narrow way, or spring from one span to another. Once it so happened that the son of a great warrior at the court inKyoto, named Sakato, fell inti; the pcjwer and teachings of these wilddenizens of the green woods of Mount Oyama. His father had foughtthe good fight for his chief, and, being defeated, was obliged to flee tothe fastness of the forest witli his deaily beloved wife. He soon diedof a broken heart, but she ]i\(d to give birth to a son, whom she namedKintaro, the Golden Boy, because he had sucii Itright hair. Though she. JAPAlS^ 391 was grieved to think of the loss of her noble husband, and her pleasanthome that she had been obliged to desert, the mother grew to be happyin the company of her sturdy little boy. The wild beasts of the forest were her enemies, which she feared muchat first; Ijut as Kintaro lay on his bed of ferns he made friends of thebirds, while they gathered in tlie tree-tops and sang him to sleep dayafter day. Their presence telling the wild animals that no human being
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