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This is because the inmates are mostly away, at tending banquets and other festivities. Their life is of the night. The legend upon the first lantern to the left as you go south is "Kinoya: uchi O-Kata;" and that means The House of Gold wherein O-Kata dwells. The lantern to the right tells of the House of Nishimura, and of a girl Miyotsuru, which name signifies The Stork Magnificently Existing.
Pierrot and Nepeese had stepped from behind the balsams, the Willow's beautiful eyes shining with pride at the accuracy of her shot. Instantly she caught her breath. Her brown fingers clutched at the barrel of her rifle. The chuckle of satisfaction died on Pierrot's lips as Baree's cries of pain filled the forest. "Uchi moosis!" gasped Nepeese, in her Cree. Pierrot caught the rifle from her.
Formerly these were determined for him by the accident of his birth. His freedom is greater and so, too, are his temptations. Furthermore, the standards of conduct themselves have been changing. Certain acts which would have brought praise and honor if committed fifty years ago, such, for instance, as "kataki uchi," revenge, would to-day soon land one behind prison doors.
She saw the white star on his breast and the white tip on his ear, and under her breath she whispered "Uchi moosis!" "The dog pup!" It was the wild dog she had shot and thought had died!
The ancient family was called uji, a word said to have originally signified the same thing as the modern term uchi, "interior," or "household," but certainly used from very early times in the sense of "name" clan-name especially.
A fox cannot pronounce a whole word, but a part only as 'Nish . . . Sa. . . for 'Nishida-San'; 'degoz . . . for 'degozarimasu, or 'uch . . . de . .? for 'uchi desuka? Then, if you are a friend of foxes, the visitor will present you with a little gift of some sort, and at once vanish away into the darkness. Whatever the gift may be, it will seem much larger that night than in the morning.
In itself the thing was very curious and pretty; but the real merit of its design was this comical symbolism of good wishes for the New Year: 'Oni wa soto! fuku wa uchi!
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