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86 THE BOY TRAVELLERS.
'' 1 thought you would say so," responded Fred, his eyes sparkling
with animation, " and I want to write while everything is fresh in my
mind. I am going to write at once."
home."
" And so am I," echoed Frank ;
" here goes for a letter to friends at
Off the boys ran for their writing materials, and in a little wliile they
were seated on the balcony of the hotel, and making their pens fairly fly
over the paper.
Here is the letter from Frank to his mother
" My Deae Mother :
:
" YoKoiiAjiA, August 4/h, 1878.
" I wish you could see me just now. I am sitting on the veranda of
the hotel, and Fred is at the table with me. If we look up from our paper,
we can see out upon the bay, where lots of ships are at anchor, and where
a whole fleet of Japanese fishing-boats are coming up and dragging their
nets along after them. Down in the street in front of us there are some
funny-looking men with trousers as tight as their skins, and making the
JAPANKSl^ MUSICIANS.