Identifier: childlifeinjapan01ayrt (find matches)
Title: Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed
Subjects: Children Fairy tales
Publisher: Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, but two or three dogs soon get toknow where the meat-eating Englishmen live.They come trotting in regularly with a business-like air to search among the days refuse forbones. Should any interloping dog try to estab-lish a right to share the feast he can only gainhis footing after a victorious battle. All thesedogs are very wolfish-looking, with straight hair^which is usually white or tan-colored. Thereare other pet dogs kept in houses. These looksomething like spaniels. They are small, withtheir black noses so much turned up that itseems as if, when they were puppies, they hadtumbled down and broken the bridge of theirnose. They are often ornamented like dog Tobyin Punch and Judy, with a ruff made of somescarlet stuff round their necks. After the heavy autumn rains have filled the Wild-dogs: ownerless dogs have now been exterminated, andevery dog in Japan is owned, licensed, taxed, or else liable to gothe way of the old wolfish-looking curs. The pet spaniel-like dogsare called chin.
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Heron-legs, or Stilts. 12 Child-Life in Japan. roads with big puddles, it is great fun, this boythinks, to walk about on stilts. You see him onpage II. His stilts are of bamboo wood, andhe calls them Heron-legs, after the long-leggedsnowy herons ^hat strut about in the wet rice-fields. When he struts about on them, hewedges the upright between his big and secondtoe as if the stilt was like his shoes. He has agood view of his two friends who are wrestling,and probably making hideous noises like wildanimals as they try to throw one another. Theyhave seen fat public wrestlers stand on oppositesides of a sanded ring, stoop, rubbing theirthighs, and in a crouching attitude and growl-ing, slowly advance upon one another. Thenwhen near to one another, the spring is madeand the men close. If after some time the roundis not decided by a throw, the umpire, who strutsabout like a turkey-cock, fanning himself, ap-proaches. He plucks the girdle of the weakercombatant, when the wrestlers at once re

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