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THE BOY TRAVELLERS.
enough to set out a tea-service on and nse tiiem for a table. When they
want to bid good-bye, they say ' Sayonara,' just as we say ' Good-bye,'
and it means exactly the same thing. They are not satisfied with one
bow, but keep on several times, until you begin to wonder when they will
get thi'ough. Everybody says they are the politest people in the world,
and I can readily believe it if what I have seen is a fair sanjple.
" There have been several men around the hotel trying to sell things
to us, and we have been looking at them. One thing I am going to get
and send in this letter is a box of Japanese pictures. They are not photo-
graphs, but real drawings by Japanese artists, and printed on Japanese
paper. You will see how soft and nice the paper is ; and
though the pict-
ures look rough, they are very good, and, above all things, they are truth-
ful. I am going to get as many different ones as I can, and so I think
you will be al)lo to get a good idea of the country as the natives see it
themselves. They have these pictures showing all their ways of life—how
they cook their food, how they eat it, how they work, how they play—in
fact, how everything is done in this very curious country. The Japanese
make their drawings with very few lines, and it will astonish you to see
how much they can express with a few strokes of a pencil. Here is a
SEVEN-STltOKE HOUSE.