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A VISIT TO SOME SACRED PLACES. 213
CHAPTER VIII.
A VISIT TO SOME SACRED PLACES.
" Although some travellers may not have much wisdom, they know more than per-
sons who have never been out of their native place.
" After making a pilgrimage to the shrines of Ise, even the beggar holds up his
head and considers himself better than his fellows."
1AM glad we are going to start to-day," said Sallie to her
brother. " It is so warm here that I shall welcome the sea-
breeze with a great deal of pleasure.
on the ocean."
Oh! how I enjoy being
"Not for the first few days, Miss Jewett," returned Fitz.
:? You kink up like a caterpillar and won't leave your berth,
you know you do. It is no good saying you like it."
"You are a dreadful tease, Fitz," she answered. "What
have you got in your hand?"
" These are lotus flowers, that old Sobei has procured from
Uyeno," he "
replied. He thinks a great deal of you, Sallie."
"
I did not know the lotuses were in bloom," she said.
" Let us go down to Uyeno and see the sight."
In a few moments the young Americans were en route for
their destination. Upon nearing the pond, Sallie cried,
"Oh! oh! do look at those flowers; are they not lovely?"
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Yes," answered Fitz, nodding, "they are delightful, and
would be more so if the water were not so highly perfumed."
" How gracefully the blossoms lift their heads to the sun,"
said Sallie.
" Do you remember the poem
'The beautiful lotus springs from the mud,
Loyalty
knows no distinction of rank ? ' '