. The mikado's empire. .spend thenight. The inns are full. Our rooms are poor. The nomi {Pulex 544 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. irritans) bite unusually hard. This is a rare behavior for them inwinter. ^ January 25 th.—Breakfast is flavored with fun and bright extremely pretty, pearly - teethed, sweet - voiced, and bright-eyedgirl waits on us. Her merry laugh and chatter make amends forshabby quarters. An unusually generous fee from the foreigner is onaccount of her reminding him of bright eyes in the home land. Faceshere in Japan recall familiar faces long known, and every phase ofcharacter in
. The mikado's empire. .spend thenight. The inns are full. Our rooms are poor. The nomi {Pulex 544 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. irritans) bite unusually hard. This is a rare behavior for them inwinter. ^ January 25 th.—Breakfast is flavored with fun and bright extremely pretty, pearly - teethed, sweet - voiced, and bright-eyedgirl waits on us. Her merry laugh and chatter make amends forshabby quarters. An unusually generous fee from the foreigner is onaccount of her reminding him of bright eyes in the home land. Faceshere in Japan recall familiar faces long known, and every phase ofcharacter in New York is duplicated here. We are descending the highlands of Echizen and Omi to the plainsof Mino and Owari. Weather grows warmer, villages more numer-ous, road more regular. We are in a silk region. Plantations ofmulberry-trees, cut to grow only six feet high, abound. Lake Biwalies in the distance, a picture of blue massively framed in at Kinomoto (Foot of the Tree), we embark in kagos. In these. How we rode to Odaui. vehicles I always fall asleep at the wrong end; my head remainingwide awake, while my feet are incorrigibly somnolent. I lie in allshapes, from a coil of rope to a pair of inverted dividers, with headwrapped from the cold and hardly enough face visible to make a mon-key. In the fine hotel at Odani, the old lady hostess is very mother-ly to her first foreign guest, until I settle in kotatsu in the dairaioschamber, with maps and books on the floor, when she resumes herspectacles and sewing. Round the room hang gilt and lacquered tab-lets of the lords and nobles who have lodged at this house. Myprinces card is among them. The old lady brings nie sheets of paperto write niy name, poetry, wise saws, etc., upon, as mementoes. Aftersupper, Inouye fights his battles oer. A bullet grazed his fore- A TRAMP THROUGH JAPAN. 545 head in the campaign of 1868-70. The students recount the lore ofthe places passed, and the Guai Shi narratives. To-morrow, say
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