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He thinks that the name of the Great Bear is the result of a mistake as to the meaning of words. There was in Sanskrit, he says, a root ark, or arch, meaning 'to be bright. The stars are called riksha, that is, bright ones, in the Veda. 'The constellations here called the Rikshas, in the sense of the "bright ones," would be homonymous in Sanskrit with the Bears.
"I know it perfectly well and I so suggested to my elder sister, but she didn't seem to understand, and I decided I would rather hire a gross of 'rikshas than try and make her. So you may expect three of 'em to-morrow at a quarter past two. The performance begins at three." "Dear old 'Comet, he's always getting slighted nowadays," remarked Billie. "He never gets to go anywhere."
It would be such fun, and while the 'rikshas are very nice, we are so separated, we can't all sympathize together as we usually do." "A kind of sympathy in detachments, is it?" asked Mr. Campbell. "But I wanted to go with you on your first ride in the 'Comet. I don't know just how the people will take to a girl's driving a red 'devil-wagon, as they call it." "Why not let Komatsu go along?"
"It would be an unpardonable breach of etiquette," he called over his shoulder. Presently he turned back and added, "You are not to use that infernal machine for my party. The Nesan provided 'rikshas for all guests." "But that's just an additional expense to you, Buxton," cried Mr. Campbell.
But I think, until I can go with you, it is safer for you to go in the 'rikshas. The common people here aren't used to motor cars and there are still some fanatics in Japan, you know, who are opposed to every sort of progress and the invasion of foreign customs." "Good-by, Papa," called Billie, "I do wish you were not a working man so that you could go with us."
Once more they were in the 'rikshas, only this time Nancy found herself seated by Yoritomo and Billie and Nicholas had paired off in the same way. Miss Campbell was not sure that she approved of this change. "In my day," she remarked to her cousin, "young ladies never rode alone in buggies with young men." "But they aren't buggies, Cousin," he answered good-naturedly.
The clerk smiled and bowed formally and once more they whirled away in their 'rikshas. They visited many shops in Tokyo that morning. It was like a fascinating bazaar and it seemed impossible to tear themselves away, although Komatsu kept always close to their elbows and several times observed: "Muchly more time. Come again."
"But what does she do?" asked Mary. "She does all the work, makes all the arrangements, engages the boxes and the 'rikshas, orders the dinner, tells you how to act; in fact, does everything any good elder sister would do to oblige a little brother."
Two bullock-carts, which collect scraps and refuse from the white staring streets, are the only carts in the city, and with the exception of a dozen 'rikshas are the only wheeled vehicles the inhabitants have seen. I have never visited a city which so impressed one with the fact that, in appearance, it had remained just as it was four hundred years before.
At last, fortified by strange if not unpalatable food and thoroughly enjoying themselves, they arrived at the entrance to the magnificent avenue called Arakawa Ridge, along each side of which, as far as the eye could see, ran two rows of cherry trees in full bloom. The avenue was lined with 'rikshas, and hundreds of pedestrians paced slowly along.
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