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Dancers often put on masks like the tengu's face and dance a curious dance which they call the Tengu's quadrille. The tengus are very proud fellows, and think themselves above human beings. They are afraid of brave men, however, and never dare to hurt them. They scare children, especially bad boys. They watch a boy telling lies and catch him.
The Karasu or crow-tengu is a black fellow, with a long beak, in the place where his nose and mouth ought to be. He looks as if some one had squeezed out the lower part of his face, and pulled his nose down so as to make a beak like a crow's. He is the Dai Tengu's lictor. He carries the axe of authority over his left shoulder, to chop bad people's heads off.
One day, as "Little Wonder" was playing about, he saw that on the top of a high cedar-tree there was a tengu's nest; so he began shaking the tree with all his might, until at last the tengu's nest came tumbling down.
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