The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-02

friend What band are You going to
i viii meet friends on the road. I am
s'Win you condescend to cook some food in
my wretched house until my unworthy re-
turn2 My son Then she stopped sud
denly
With pleasure said the kind woman;
you must need an august change Of air.
Your honorable grandson is a great charge
at such noble age
Please do not let Kito San eat salt fish
and daikon at the same meas. they insolent-
your kindness, and I viii unworthily pray
for you at Mike" And she turned away.
slippers for my little girIr' called the
other woman after her.
7 viii send Them answered Shiwo, in
her kind, cracked voice
charcoal merchants wife: does she mean
TO stay there 1orever2
Two pilgrims sat down on the stone
steps that lead out from the last terraces
SIDE where iyeyasu 5 bones lay deep and
quiet in their scarlet cerements. Behind
en- climbing stairways, the regal darkness
Of the pine groves and al the gathered
grass fun ofs wild flowers. the waving
woodlands, and the sky The old woman
and closed her ewes for a moment sShe
looked very tired but at peace. Fifty
was once more a little soul adaze with
beauty She had found it all again, and
s.Wiil you eat. grand1nother?'' said Ko-
kichi, opening out their little store on the
No, my SON.. she answered, ''eat, I
have no hunger
this time, But Shiwo was so tired that
to get back to the Usui Toge, and as for
again reaching Mike with this body it
down and 1oosened her raveled sandals
and dropped them over the low wall
6lzr rF1r not he. tod
she took from inside her gsrdle two let
ters carefully folded. one addressed to her
S Nikk sns 0'nsf $ 'ns august au'n0r'''eS =
ed. as Kokiehi leaned back against her
knee with a little grunts of content If
50. pack Up the rest. it viii dc, for your
kokdehi looked up, surprised at her
Here are the fur Shippers for o Sudzu
Sans little girl she said. laying down a
parcel on the stone, and this paper of
came here almost all the way on foot, but
here IS the money for you to go back in
kochiki? r she asked, STOPPING down and
'.Of. coursei'' he said, with delighted
Wen she went on. sstIlfs letter is for
your august father. this for the guardian
Koliel,i= promise me hiatt ObeV vo11r
father. do y your lessons, take care Of your
clothes. and please, please be kind to
but you, b Bassan." said the boy,
what are you going to do2 Am to 20
i wish to remain a little longer she
replied, and you have already been more
your ticket for Takasakf and walk up
from there it will be cheaper"
has been q nice ioI9rneyi CONE boIns
soon, and I will really be good till I see
Once more she laid her hand on his
head and looked down into his jolly,
q " &
ormation of Koldchi had begun
A little boy, with killed coat and a bun
die tied to a stick. put a letter in the
then started to run down the Hill to the
railway station. which was far more IN
The guardian read the letter and looked
.Honored Sir, I, the mother of Izito
Toge, having come from far to visit Mike
in my old age. have made up my mind to
this glorious spot I shall never have
strength to return to it. # your honor
my unworthy body in this happy place
my spirit will remain here. and will al
It was not till quite late in the day that
they found her, a decorous little blue fig
ure. lying. back against the steps with her
sash tied round her knees-and her pretty
blue towel bound over her face. which
Iyeyasu. Her penknife was on the stone
beside her, and there We're no ugly marks,
was doubtless tired after the long journey
and had slipped out of its prison with
ease.
I passed through the village of Usui
Toge years afterwerd and stopped a wom-
an at the temple gate to ask after Kold-
Chi aRd Kito San. When she spoke I saw
that ifswas o Sudzu, the wife of the char
coal merchant
..Kfto San is now a happy father she
replied for Kokichi San Is at the top of
the class and will certainly be a school
master. Did the Oxusama indeed know
ShiWo SAM She was a good woman =
A huge tailless cat. with splendid red
and purple collar, was purring in the sun
on the temple steps.