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"'Pause, oh Prince, for prince thou surely art, he gasped. 'But why hast thou done this deed? "And the prince, standing over him with the dripping sword, said: "'I am O'Osu, messenger of the Emperor and avenger of evil. "'Then, said the dying robber, 'thou shalt have a new name. Until this hour my brother and I have been called the bravest men in the West.
To thee, august boy, I bequeath the title. Let men call thee the bravest in Yamato. "From that day O'Osu was called 'Yamato Take, and never did he wrong the name." Mary sighed when Mme. Fontaine had finished the story. She yearned for the gift of language and the power to chain the attention of a circle of people.
O'Osu gladly undertook the affair and since the outlaws were giants and he just a boy, he devised a cunning scheme to outwit the terrible brigands. He was slender and small and his hair still long, so that in the gorgeous clothes of a dancing girl no one would ever have guessed he was a brave and reckless young prince.
Fontaine, urged by the girls, recounted an incident in the life of Yamato, or O'Osu, as he was then known. He was the son of the Emperor Keiko, and when a mere slip of a boy was sent by his father to slay two fierce robbers who had been spreading terror through the country.
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