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It is estimated that at least half a million pilgrims repair annually to the Temple of Ise, but the educated class seldom visits the place, perhaps not more than once in a lifetime. We then drove eight miles to Futami, a seaside resort with a pretty Japanese tea-house fronting the water. Here is a peculiar formation of rock called "The Husband and Wife Rocks," connected by a chain.
He answered on his slate, as well as by signs which Janet at least understood perfectly, that he had told them so, and had been so all the time, "and what differ dos that mak?" he added. Mr. Sclater told him he was or would be, at least, he took care to add, when he came of age a rich man as well as a baronet. "Writch men," wrote Gibbie, "dee as they like, and Ise bide." Mr.
"Reverently adoring the great god of the two palaces of Ise in the first, place, the eight hundred myriads of celestial gods, the eight hundred myriads of terrestrial gods, the fifteen hundred myriads of gods to whom are consecrated the great and small temples in all provinces, all islands, and all places of the Great Land of Eight Islands, the fifteen hundred myriads of gods whom they cause to serve them, and the gods of branch-palaces and branch-temples, and Sohodo-no-Kami* whom I have invited to the shrine set up on this divine shelf, and to whom I offer praises day by day, I pray with awe that they will deign to correct the unwilling faults which, heard and seen by them, I have committed; and that, blessing and favouring me according to the powers which they severally wield, they will cause me to follow the divine example, and to perform good works in the Way."
"You know you is really 'titled to yo' fif's by law, Mahs William," resumed Mammy, in her natural manner, "because still bein' bond, you could call on me, an' I don't begrudge you; in fact, Ise beholden to you." "Not at all, Mammy. Don't talk any more about my fifth. You are as good as free, you know." "I knows that, Mahs William; but right is right, and I gwine to pay for them buttons."
"There won't none o' dese hyah Germans hurt ol' Uncle Billy!" "Well, then, good-by," said the boys. "After the war is over we are coming back to see you." "After de wah am over," said the old negro slowly, "Ise gwine back ter ol' Virginy!" With another word of farewell the boys wheeled their horses and rode after their companions, who were now some distance ahead.
Don' you go, an ax an ole man like me if I tinks dat ole miss went away cos you was comin' an' if it's my true b'lief dat she'll neber come back while you is h'yar. Don' ask me nuffin like dat, Mahs' Junius. Ise libed in dis place all my bawn days, an' I ain't neber done nuffin to you, Mahs' Junius, 'cept keepin' you from breakin' you neck when you was too little to know better.
We find him presently constructing in the mansion of his favourite retainer, Ise Sadachika, a bath-house which was the wonder of the time, a bath-house where the bathers were expected to come robed in the most magnificent costumes.
"Correct. Now run like the very devil up Broadway to Forty-fifth and turn west!" "Boss," cried the darky, "Ise gone!" He was, too. His splay feet in their broken shoes fairly spurned the sidewalk as he darted northward, boring his way through the lanes of pedestrians, knocking people aside out of their stride and followed as he went by a wake of curses and grunts and curious glances.
"My, but that dun been awful!" murmured Aleck with a shiver. "Ise glad we didn't take no shelter under dat tree." "Amen," said Tom. He had been on the point of making some joke about the storm, but now the fun was knocked completely out of him. It rained for the rest of the day and all of the night, and for once all hands felt thoroughly, miserable.
But at the conclusion his face fell. "Ise mighty glad I am cleared," he said. "But I'd give a good deal to face de cap'n jest to see wot he would say, eh?" "He said he was sorry he had suspected you," said Dick. "What a big fool dis darkey was to run away!" murmured Aleck meditatively. "I wasn't cut out fo' no sailer man. Ise been sick most ebery day since I left shoah.
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