A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

16 Japanese Miscellany
further end? I wanted long ago to ask this;
but I thought, that if you were to marry again,
you would not like to have my grave so near
you. Now you have promised that no other
woman shall take my place ; — so I need not
hesitate to speak of my wish. ... I want so
much to be buried in the garden ! I think that
in the garden I should sometimes hear your
voice, and that I should still be able to see the
flowers in the spring."
" It shall be as you wish," he answered. " But
do not now speak of burial : you are not so ill
that we have lost all hope."
" / have," she retumed ; — " I shall die this
morning. ... But you will bury me in the
garden ?
"
"Yes," he said, — "under the shade of the
and you shall have
plum-trees that we planted ; —
a beautiful tomb there."
" And will you give me a little bell ?
"Bell — .?"
" Yes : I want you to put a little bell in the
coffin, — such a little bell as the Buddhist pilgrims
carry. Shall I have it .? "
" You shall have the little bell, — and anything
else that you wish."
"