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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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168 <strong>Japanese</strong> Miscellany<br />

Rohu ga saita,<br />

Shichi ga saita,<br />

Hachi ga saita,<br />

/^Mtnabachi ga saita,<br />

Tokage ga saita<br />

One stings I [here one child lays his right hand upon the<br />

right hand <strong>of</strong> a playfellow] — two stings ! [left hand upon<br />

the right] — three stings ! [left hand upon the left] — four<br />

stings I [undermost<br />

— five stings I [same mancEuvre by the other player] — six<br />

stings ! — seven stings I — the BEE i stings ! [here the one<br />

right hand brought up and laid on]<br />

whose hand is uppermost pinches the other's hand] — the<br />

WASP stings I [retaliation] — the lizard bites ! [a very hard<br />

pinch.]<br />

(Game-song.')<br />

" Koko wa doko no lioso-miclii ja ?<br />

" Tenjin-San no hoso-michi ja."<br />

" Ciiotto toshite kudanshanse !<br />

!<br />

" "<br />

" Goyo no nai mono tosliimasenu."<br />

" Tenjin-San e gwan-kakete,<br />

Ofuda osame ni mairimasu."<br />

" Omae no uchi wa doko jaina ?<br />

" Hakone no o-seki degozarimas."<br />

" Sonnara toyare, toyare<br />

1 Hachi, as pronounced, may mean either " eight" or " bee."<br />

!<br />

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