Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 382
e beheaded, they were sent back. The boys were put in prison and sentenced to be be-headed in five years. One of the boys, whose namewas Yoshida Shoin, was turned over to the lord of hisclan to be cared for. He was friendly to the boy, and gave him a cottageunder the pines, where he gathered… … NATURES SCHOOL. BY MARIANNA L1PPINCOTT, AGE 14. Marquis Ito, the greatest statesman of Japan, wasthe caretaker of that school, and Kido Koin, the greatestmechanical genius of Japan, was the elder of the boys. Five years from that time Yoshida Shoin was takenoutside the gates of Yedo and beheaded,…
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