The Japanese fairy book . good living and of every are not even like an ordinary man, for you are exception-ally idle, and more sensitive to heat and cold than most would never be able to go barefoot or to wear only onethin dress in the winter time ! Do you think that you wouldever have the patience or the endurance to live a hermits life ? In answer to your prayer, however, I will help you inanother way. I will send you to the country of Perpetual Life,where death never comes—where the people live for ever ! Saying this, Jofuku put into Sentaros hand a little cranemade
The Japanese fairy book . good living and of every are not even like an ordinary man, for you are exception-ally idle, and more sensitive to heat and cold than most would never be able to go barefoot or to wear only onethin dress in the winter time ! Do you think that you wouldever have the patience or the endurance to live a hermits life ? In answer to your prayer, however, I will help you inanother way. I will send you to the country of Perpetual Life,where death never comes—where the people live for ever ! Saying this, Jofuku put into Sentaros hand a little cranemade of paper, telling him to sit on its back and it would carryhim there. Sentaro obeyed wonderingly. The crane grew largeenough for him to ride on it with comfort. It then spread itswings, rose high in the air, and flew away over the mountainsright out to sea. The Story of the Man who did not Wish to Die. 91 Sentaro was at first quite frightened ; but by degrees hegrew accustomed to the swift flight through the air. On and. The Crane flew away, right out to Sea. on they went for thousands of miles. The bird never stoppedfor rest or food, but as it was a paper bird it doubtless did notrequire any nourishment, and strange to say, neither did Sentaro. 92 Japanese Fairy Book. After several days they reached an island. The crane flewsome distance inland and then alighted. As soon as Sentaro got down from the birds back, thecrane folded up of its own accord and flew into his pocket. Now Sentaro began to look about him wonderingly, curiousto see what the country of Perpetual Life was like. He walkedfirst round about the country and then through the was, of course, quite strange, and different from hisown land, But both the land and the people seemed pros-perous, so he decided that it would be good for him to staythere and took up lodgings at one of the hotels. The proprietor was a kind man, and when Sentaro toldhim that he was a stranger and had come to live there, hepr
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