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A VISIT TO A LACQUER-MAKER. 79
after the sun had risen over the horizon. The
picture represents her as saluting the glorious goddess."
''Why did she wear her hair hanging down her back in
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such an untidy way?'" asked the inquisitive boy.
"
All poets like to have their locks
flowing, when they are
composing verses," replied Oto.
Fitz whistled and remarked:
" I told Sallie that the lady was short of hair-pins. I sup-
pose nobody could write poems' if they had their hair banged
all over, as I used to, when I wr
ent to school."
"
Fitz, do not be so absurd," said Sallie.
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Boys, are you ready to go
to the Ginko?"
They replied in the affirmative, and ordering their jin-
riki-sha, started from the yashiki.
When they arrived at their destination, they saw a police-
man, in foreign uniform, parading in front of the building.
He was a wiry, little fellow, and he carried under his arm a
long club of hard wood.
"My gracious!'' whispered
Fitz. "Don't his clothes fit
horribly? His jacket is shirred under the arms, and, oh! do
look at his trousers."
The officer, whose mouth had a stern, downward curve, on
perceiving Oto, saluted and said:
"
My head is all right now, Doctor/'
" Have you found the medicine I gave you beneficial?" in-
quired the young man,
as he dismounted from his vehicle.
" I presented it to my honorable mother," gravely answered
the policeman. "She had rheumatism in her ankles, so, of
course, I did not think of myself. I am pleased to tell you
that it has completely cured her."
The Jewett boys waited until they got inside the bank
building, then yielded to their merriment.