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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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296 <strong>Japanese</strong> Miscellany<br />

a warm breakfast awaiting me downstairs, and<br />

Otokichi's little brown daughter ready to serve<br />

me. ... As I swallowed the final bowl <strong>of</strong> warm<br />

tea, my gaze involuntarily wandered in the<br />

direction <strong>of</strong> the household gods, whose tiny<br />

lamps were still glowing. Then I noticed that<br />

a light was burning also in front <strong>of</strong> Daruma;<br />

and almost in the same instant I perceived that<br />

Daruma was looking straight at me — with<br />

TWO eyes! . . .

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