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THE WONDERFUL CITY OF TOKIO.
spectful to him, or you may get shipwrecked
some time. It is
fortunate for you that his eyes have not been opened."
"What?" demanded the undaunted boy.
"You must be very ignorant if you do not know that,"
snapped the man. "When we make the gods they are blind.
Our customers take them to the bozu (priest) who blesses
them and then they can see
everything."
"Sure?" said Fitz.
"Certainly," was the confident
reply, "as soon as this
god has had its eyes opened, it
will see and hear what you do,
and be revenged if you insult
him."
The boy began to chuckle,
noticing which,
in English:
" Come away, Fitz."
his sister said
" One moment," remarked
the irrepressible 5 then, turning
to the idol-maker, he
RIU-TO inquired:
(SEA-GOD).
"Are you sure that the gods
can see everything when the bozu have fixed them?"
"Just as sure as I live," was the confident rejoinder.
"Why do you not take your blind people and have their
eyes opened ? " "
he asked. If the bozu can make the idols
see, surely they can do the same thing for your unfortunate
inekura"
This made the workmen laugh, they evidently enjoying
their foreman's annoyance, while the latter turned his back
upon
Fitz and said: