Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and (14763852531)

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Title: Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: London, New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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compliance, and they left him there un-fastened, at the lips of the black field-piece, whilethe artillery-man pulled the lanyard. AVhen Govind and Sita were resting that nightat a temple, on their way to the village in thehills, she asked what her husband saw as thesmoke cleared away, and he replied, I saw onlya red turban, rolling, and a waistband which twistedand twisted along the maidan—if, indeed, I saw somuch, for my eyes were dim. And Luximan said that the wife told all to herhusband, and that he left her, neither beaten orcursed, neither praised or blessed; for he said,Until we come to Swarga I know not to which of M 178 WANDERING WORDS us thou art the wife. And afterwards Sita Hvedalone, in widows dress, but always keeping on herarm the mark of her marriage. So that was howI had chanced to see at Christmas-time in the Indianvillage the hidden iron bracelet of which I havenever spoken until now, when there is no longer theslightest danger in speaking. IXSOME JAPANESE PICTURES
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IX SOME JAPANESE PICTURES The children of Japan charm everybody who visitsthe country. From the highest to the lowest ranks,and almost without exception, they are the best-behaved, least mischievous, most sedate, demure,correct, amusing, and unobnoxious specimens ofminute humanity to be found on the globe. Theaverage American boy, especially if born in well-to-do homes, is an egotistic, noisy, restless little tyrant,who makes a railway saloon or a drawing-room aplace of torture to his elders. The average Englishboy, more shy and silent, is yet by nature full ofmischief and suppressed devilry, and is too oftencapable of the most fiendish cruelty. As for girls,they are everywhere, of course, more docile andgentle than their brothers, and seldom provoke thesensitive or nervous mind to thoughts of infanticide.But the Japanese babies and children—boys andgirls alike—delight and comfort the foreign visitorby their ideal propriety. The streets, the houses,the temples, the gardens, the ra