Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories (1901)
Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883, Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed · Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co. · leaf 28
eir black noses so much turned up that itseems as if, when they were puppies, they hadtumbled down and broken the bridge of theirnose. They are often ornamented like dog Tobyin Punch and Judy, with a ruff made of somescarlet stuff round their necks. After the heavy autumn rains have filled the… … Heron-legs, or Stilts. 12 Child-Life in Japan. roads with big puddles, it is great fun, this boythinks, to walk about on stilts. You see him onpage II. His stilts are of bamboo wood, andhe calls them Heron-legs, after the long-leggedsnowy herons ^hat strut about in the wet rice-fields. When he…
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