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2 THE WONDERFUL. CITY OF TOKIO.
Japanese has to do with foreigners he must rise very early.
A few days before the New Year's holiday, I received a letter
from the honorable Professor Jewett who lives in your yashi-
ki. He informed me that one of his sons requires a strong
jin-riki-sha man, and ordered me to call on him as soon as
the festival was over. This is the eleventh day of the first
month, and I am here."
Thus speaking he looked up at the heavy tiled roof of the
ancient gateway, and said in a sort of aside:
"Ah! there was a time when this yashiki contained some-
thing better than a lot of foreigners."
The mom-ban twitched his mouth and said "You are
a nice sort of fellow to talk thus about your prospective
employers. I can tell you one thing, the Americans are good
people. They are exceedingly polite, give many presents,
and do not cause me any trouble. Professor Jewett is a very
learned man, and his wife is a most charitable lady. As to
his boys, Johnnie and Fitz, they are amiable enough
Japanese, and their sister is a perfect angel."
The jin-riki-sha man chuckled, and nodding, said,
to be
"Now, honorable Mr. Mom-ban, after that, perhaps, you will
let me in."
The keeper unfastened a bolt, swung open the heavy gate
and admitted the man, who, glancing at some horses, feeding
under a shed, demanded, "To whom do those beautiful
creatures belong?"
T To the chief foreign doctor and his assistants," answered
the mom-ban. "I suppose you know that the government
hospital is in this yashiki ? The great doctor sends
his animals here while he makes his first tour of inspection."
The visitor smiled and said, "These foreign doctors