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us by the yards of illuminated mulberry paper they covered. Arisuga had many of such yards himself. That was not a question. But his inches raised many questions. Th

irection when he is before an enemy. You all know what direction that is. The commoner may be as good as the samurai in a century. But the samurai is always dependable now. I wish the whole of the Guards were shizoku. His uncles, the

hat must be without his ever having precisely said that it must be. So, in this matter, he pretended to have left it to them. But he had decided upon Shijiro's final admission to

recruiting major, "he is conside

uff for the Guard

tsumot

d him called

aughed Jokich

ith him when he was a child-he and

om Kitsushim

ring under the cherry-boughs, hand i

ere the lanterns shine in Geisha stre

This was not ser

ise you with the information that he also pretends to the sister ar

ha

f a doze

iron, clanging, mongolian! Within th

bles. And, to practise poetry is not there as here, heinous to one's friends. I know of a gunner who sat cross-legged under his gun behind Poutuloff and wrote a poem concerning The-Moon-in-a-Moat.

reat Death" of

of m

e of

wound

my

Red D

" cried

anzai!" ye

lt, Yasuki, the res

Yamato Damashii itself!

!" laughed jo

e-as they called them

of war-giving his soul for his emperor-made him a

," cried Nijin,

Yasuki, who had

sumoto and Jokichi togethe

t him sing war-songs!

is office, as recruiting-major, pretended to

ment!"

m down and again st

have a

!" shoute

ng are two very dif

isely the same," l

eny

Nijin, who was happiest, t

laughed Jokichi

ami, shaking a happy

tood with Zanzi f

in said in

never practise

en, Arisuga would have been chosen

se stoical orientals could be moved t

r word from grizzled Zanzi, who had been in

the word. "His fa

hima, where the Shogunate perished and the empire was born again in 1868. And the shoguns you may care to know were that mighty line of feodal chieftains who had usurped the throne from the time of Yoritomo, to

Saigo and his gallant rebels, in a great trench,

word-Jokoji-Ari

el. Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with

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