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Identifier: buddhascrystalot00ozak (find matches)
Title: Buddha's crystal and other fairy stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Ozaki, Yei Theodora Iwaya, Sazanami, 1870-1933
Subjects: Tales -- Japan
Publisher: Tokyo : Kelly & Walsh
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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our child from herinfancy, and they are friends and understand each otherscharacters pretty well. What do you think ? Mr. Mouse was delighted with his wifes thought.• What a, splendid idea ! Chusuke is just the very fellow.He is certainly a rising young mouse and will make thebest of husbands, I am sure. Why in the name of rice-cakes did we not think of him before ? So Chusuke, the clerk, was informed of the happy fatewhich his superior planned for himx, and for a whole dayand night he ceased not to squeak for joy at the goodnews. He called himself the happiest of mice, as indeedhe was. O Chu, on hearing of her parents wish, seemed happilycontent with their choice, and she rejoiced that in marryingChusuke she would not have to go far away from herparents home, since he lived hard by, and so the matterwas settled. Now all were busy in the mouse-hole arranging thepresents for her bridegToom and getting the bride readyfor her new home. A few days later a grand wedding was celebrated in
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TRYING ON THE WEDDING DRESS. THE MOUSE Bf^IDE gj Mousedom. The bride was carried ^^ ^ closed palanquinto Chusukes residence at the other ?^de of the house, and along procession of bearers carrying large boxes full of herpossessions went before her and wc^J^^ its way along therafters of the house. The mouse-bfi^^g^^oorn met her onthe threshold of her new home and conducted her to theroom where the ceremony of drinking the three cups ofwine was to take place, and there tF^ happy young couplewere united in the presence of their fespective parents. The brides father was exceptio^^-^^y merry over themarriage of his daughter, and was heard to give someworthy advice to some of his young pachelor friends. * How I wasted my time in goit^S to see those whomI thought great and powerful, and ^ho, after all, wereunable to accept my good offer. I fecund out, though, thatwe mice are quite equal to everything ^^se in the world, ifnot better. And I learned to be content with what wasnear at hand and t

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