Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 56
) and mindMekkachi San. Your life will be much happierif you do. So, day after day, I was taught tricks which I did not want to learn. To climb up a ladder andto stand on my head at the top; to drill like a sol-dier and to beat a drum; to be harnessed to asmall cart in which sat Saru, the monkey,… … HE BEGAN TO TALK TO THE MAN IN SOMESTRANGE LANGUAGE. (SEE PAGE 608.) ever they had the chance. Old Kihei, the pony,was friendly, but he was half blind, and rarelycared to talk. At last, early one morning, everything waspacked into the itto basha [horse carriage], andvery soon we had left Tokio…
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