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Updated: June 25, 2025
And, lastly, he made the steed balance himself upon the frame of an andon . Then Yokoyama was at a loss what to do, and he could only say, bowing low to the prince: "Truly I am grateful for your entertainment; I am very much delighted." And the lord Oguri, having attached Onikage to a cherry-tree in the garden, reentered the apartment.
The first person astir in a Japanese household is the mistress of the house. She rises from the quilts on the floor which form her bed and puts out the lamp, which has been burning all night. No Japanese sleeps without an andon, a tall paper lamp, in which a dim light burns. Next she unlocks the amado, the wooden shutters, and calls the servants. Now the breakfast-table must be set out.
Next evening, when Asako had spread the two quilts on the golden matting, when she had lit the rushlight in the square andon, when the two girls were lying side by side under the heavy wadded bedclothes, Sadako said to her cousin: "Asa Chan, I do not think you like me now as much as you used to like me."
"Let's hope it won't be three times and out," responded Bart lightly." By the way, I wonder what they did with that corporal who tried to do me up?" "Most likely he's shot by this time," observed Tom. "If he isn't, he ought to be." "He isn't shot yet at any rate," remarked Fred Andon, who sat near by. "I guess the fighting was so hot all day yesterday that they didn't have time to attend to him.
So it seemed to him that some children must have wandered into his apartment, by mistake, in the dark. He uttered some gentle rebuke. He arose and rekindled the candle in the andon, and looked about the room. There was no one. The shoji were all closed. He examined the cupboards; they were empty.
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