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THE WONDERFUL CITY OF TOKIO.
" I told our jin-riki-sha men to meet us here," returned
Johnnie.
:?
Will you be afraid to return alone? If you are not,
we will go on from here to E-ko-in and see the wrestlers."
"
I am not afraid to go anywhere in Tokio," she said.
'
The people are always kind and respectful to me, and I feel
perfectly safe. Old Sobei will take care of me."
They entered their vehicles and the boys went one way and
the girl the other.
"Hello!" cried Fitz, as they neared their destination.
:f What animals are those hanging up outside that meat-
shop?"
They stopped their jin-riki-sha and inspected
lishment.
the estab-
"This reminds me of the restaurant for foreign food in
Golden River," * said Johnnie.
" It is a store for supplying the wrestlers with food," said
Oto.
!r
That class of men have always eaten meat, as they
believe it gives them strength and makes them courageous.
None of them are very fastidious about their diet, which
consists of
"
foxes, badgers, wolves, bears, rabbits, monkeys,
w And rats," interposed Fitz.
"They are not Chinese," quietly retorted Oto, adding,
" Now, boys, first turning to the right, and we shall soon be at
the E-ko in"
They proceeded down a narrow street, at the end of which
was the temple of Mu-yen-ji (helplessness).
A taro-irioi (sak6 deliverer) whose head was shaven like
a bozu, was listening to a handsomely dressed young woman.
"
Hurry upon your business, brother," she said.
"
If you
return home in time, this afternoon, I will furnish you with
money to go
to see the wrestlers."
* Vide Young Americans in Japan, p. 68.