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AMONG THE PORCELAIN-MAKERS. '59
breakfast with us and we will call for your parent on our way.
I believe we agreed first to visit the potters at Shiba and then
to go on to Meguro. It will be a long run for our jin-riki-sha
men, so I think we had better engage some extra help."
"Sallie always arranges everything,"
thorough American girl, isn't
she?"
" It is good you have a
sister to think for you, Fitz,"
quietly replied Oto.
"
If you
were left to yourself you
would get into some bad
scrapes. What have you
done with your tortoises ? "
The boy chuckled awhile,
then said,
"I found I could
not tame them and well,
the cook said they were poisonous,
so I performed the
ceremony of ho-jo-ye (set-
ting living things free). Sal-
lie, I, and old Choso went
to the pond in the yashiki
and let the kame go. They
were a bad investment. Say,
said Fitz. "She is a
BISHAMON, GOD OF SWORDSMEN AND
SCHOLARS.
Oto, will you not stop to
breakfast?"
" I am sorry, but I promised to return to my mother," said
the doctor. "Sallie, please do not forget
to call at our house
on your way to Shiba, we will be ready for you."
About nine o'clock the girl and her brothers bade their
parents adieu and started in their jin-riki-sha.