The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-01
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THE RETURN OF YORIMASA
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Rv F. Hadland Davis.)

Yorimasa and his wife Tana sat
in their little house at osaka. Their
child. Momotaro C'Peach Darling j.
plaved on the mating with paper
carp. while his parents discussed the
recent torpedo attack upon the Rus
sian fleet at Port Arthur. The time
OF negotiations was past. Russia mad
answered her treaties, not with pen
and ink. but with a gun, and now all
japan would answer the Great Bear
with a gun too. Every man in Japan
desired to lay down his life for his
Emperor.
When war broke out Yorimasa at
once enlisted in the Second Army Of
Japan. 4th Division, under brave Gen
eraI Oku. He now awaited orders, and
expected at every moment to join his
regiment and sail for Manchuria.
Come here, Momotaro," said Yori-
masa gently. The little fellow put
down his toy and ran towards his
father.
"Momotaro. would you like to be
soldier? Would you like to fight with
a gun and sword, and bring glory to
the Mikado?"
Momotaro looked very fierce and
strurted about. xiii, bang, bang, kill,
kill, kill all naughty enemies of the
Mikador' shouted he.
His father lifted him up and looked
taro. we are all sons of the Mikado.
You have spoken WE'LL
Tama opened the window and shuS
1t again. Perhaps there was one little
tear in the garden that did not quite
belong to the Emperor, but to a moth
er's heart.
yorimasa noticed the panied look on
Tama's face, and he spoke very kindly
to her, for he loved his wife dearly;
but that great host of vanished war
riors stirred in his blood now; he
heard their voices calling. and he knew
that he loved his Emperor more than
Tama.
..Momotaro," said Yorimasa, you
must be very kind to mother when
1 am gone"
The little boy pulled himself out like
his paper carp. 81 viii be very,
very kind little man." said he, simply.
"ShaI I tell you a story, Mono
taro?"
BE very pleased to tell Momotaro
a story" replied the little fellow as ne
squatted cross-legged on the mating.
Once" said Yorimasa, ''the Queen
of the Sea was taken very i'll, and
nothing could possibly save her life
except the liver of a monkey. And
so a tortoise was sent off to capture
a monkey, because, as you know, Mo-
motaro, a tortoise can live equally well
on sea or land. At last the tortoise
succeeded in catching a monkey and
carried him on his back, securely hold
ing one of the monkeys feet IN MS
mouth for safety. Now very tender
hearted old jelly-fsh, knowing what
the fate of the monkey would be, took
pity on him and told him what was to
happen. When the monkey was
brought in before the Queen, he wept
very bitterly, and upon being asked the
cause of his sadness, he replied, on,
Lady Queen, I left my liver hanging
up on a tree, that is why / weep.
Momotaro laughed merrily. well"
continued Yorimasa, "this clever mon
key was told to go back and get his
liver. and once more the tortoise car
ried him. When they got to the tree
the monkey jumped on branch and
never came back again. So the tor
toise returned alone, and when he told
his tale to the Queen, she at once per-
ceived that some one had informed the
monkey what his fate would be. So
the Queen commanded the presence OF
all her subjects in the sea. All obeyed
her summons except the kind-hearted
old -jelly-fish. The Queen at once knew
that he was guilty of betrayal, and
told him that henceforth he should go
about without his shell-just soft.
pink and white lump without anything
on
Momotaro clapped his hands togeth-
er and laughed gayly. 81 think" said
he, solemnly, "that jelly-fshes are
really umbrellas of the sea for little
fishes to get under when the sun shines
very brightly. Can you leave anything