so add another to the number of little ragsthat have been hung by each visitor about the dogsneck. Then they go to the altar and give their cakesto a boy belonging to the temple, who in exchangepresents them with one rice-cake which has beenblessed ; they ring a round brass bell to call their… … THE TURTLE. To face page \i. SEVEN SCENES OF CHILD-LIFE JN JAPAN. 13 toys, and cakes, and flowers, and fish. The man whosells the gold fish, with fan-like tails as long as theirbodies, has also turtles, and these boys at last settlethat of all the pretty things they have seen they wouldbest like to…
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