The boy travellers in the Far East : adventures of two youths ... - Library

HOW CHILDREN ARE AMUSED. 151
until our day. Now the missionaries are at liberty to pi-eaeli tlie Gospel,
and may make as many converts as tliey please."
As tliey walked away from the kosatsu they saw a gronp engaged in
the childish amusement of blowing soap-bubbles. There were three
persons in the group, a man and two boys, and the youngsters were as
happy as American or English boys would have been under similar cir-
cumstances. While the man blew the bubbles, the boys danced around
him and endeavored to catch the shining globes. Fred and Frank were
much interested in the spectacle, and had it not been for their sense of
dignity, and the manifest impropriety of interfering, they would have join-
ed in the sport. The jslayers were poorly clad, and evidently did not be-
long to the wealthier class ; but they were as happy as though they had
been princes ;
in fact, it is very doubtful if princes could have had a quarter
as much enjoyment from the chase of soap-bubbles.
BLOWING BUBBLES
Evening was approaching, and the i^arty concluded to defer their sight-
.seeing until the morrow. They returned to the railway station, and were
just in tin]e to catch the last train of the day for Yokohama. There was
a hotel at Tokio on the European system, and if they had missed the train,
they would have patronized this establishment. The Doctor liad spent a
week there, and spoke favorably of the Sei-yo-ken, as the hotel is called.