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some starch in a basin intending
to put it in the clothes in her
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wash-tub; but a sparrow that
a woman her neighbor kept as
a pet eat it up. Seeing this
the cross old woman seized the
sparrow, and saying: "you hate-
fill thing!" cut its tongue and
let it g*
When the neighbor woman
heard that her pet sparrow had
got its tongue cut for its offense,
she was greatly grieved, and set
out with her husband over
mountains and plains to find
where it had gone. Crying;
"Where does the tongue-cut
sparrow stay? Where does the
tongue-cut sparrow stay? 1
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At last they
found its home.
When the spar-
row saw
that
its old master and mistress had
come to see it, it rejoiced and
brought them into its house and
thanked them for their kindness
in old times and spread a
table for them, and loaded it
with sake and fish till there
was no more room, and made
its wife and children and grand-
children all serve the table.
At last throwing away its
drinking-cup it danced a jig
called the sparrow's dance.
Thus they spent
the day.
When it began
to grow dark, and they began
to talk of going home, the
sparrow brought out two wicker
baskets and said; "Will you
take the heavy one, or shall I
give you the light one!" The
old people replied: "We are
old, so give us the light one:
it will be
easier to
The sparrow then gave them the
light basket and they returned
with it to their home, "Let us
open and see what is in it"
they said. And when they had
opened it and looked they found
gold and silver and jewels and
rolls of silk. They never expected
any thing like this. The more
they took out the more they
found inside, The supply was in-
exhaustable. So that house at
once became rich and prosperous*
When the cross old woman who
had cut the sparrow's tongue
saw this, she was filled with
envy, and went and asked her
neighbor where the sparrow
lived, and all about the way,
"I will go too;" she said, and
at once set out on her search.
Again the sparrow brought
out two wicker baskets and asked
as before; "Will you take the
heavy one, or shall I give you
the light one!"
Thinking the treasure would
be great in proportion to the
weight of the basket, the old
woman replied: "Let
me have the heavy one."
Eeceiving this, she started home
with it on her back; the sparrows
laughing at her as she went.
It was as heavy as a stone
and hard to carry; but at last
she got back with it to her
house.
Then when she took off the
lid and looked in a whole
troop of frightful devils came
bouncing out from the inside
and at once tore the old
woman to pieces,
JAPANESE FMKY TALE SERIES.
Momotaro or Little Peachling,
The Tongue Cut Sparrow.
The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab.
The Old Man who made the Dead Trees Blossom
Kachi-Kachi Mountain.
The Mouses' Wedding.
The Old Man and the Devils.
Urashima, the Fisher-boy.
The Eight- Headed Serpent.
The Matsuyama Mirror.
The Hare of Inaba.
The Cub's Triumph.
The Silly Jeily-Fish.
The Princes Fire-Flash and Fire-Fade.
My Lord Rag-o'-Rice.
The Wonderful Tea-Kettle.
Schlppeitaro.
The Ogre's Arm.
The Ogres of Oyeyama.
The Enchanted Waterfall.
Series No. I. The Goblin-Spider.
9 * 2. The Wonderful Mallet.
' * 3. The Broken linages.
T. HASEGAWA, 38 Yotsnya Homnrara, TOKYO.
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES SSBIES.
21. Three Reflections.
22. The Flowers of Remembrance and Forgetfulness.
23. The Boy Who Drew Cats.
24. The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling.
25. Chin Chin Kobakama.
Oyuchasan with Music.
Kolianasan with Music.
The Children's Japan.
A Day with Mttsu.
Japanese Topsyturvydom.
Japanese Pictures of Japanese Life. I.
Ditto. II.
Residential Rhymes.
Japanese Story-Tellers
Poetical Greetings from the Far East: Japanese Poems.
White Aster, A Japanese Metrical. Romance, and other
Japanese Poems.
The Favorite Flowers of Japan.
Japan's Year. Illustrated in full colours on Japanese
ordinary paper with handpainted cover.
T. HASEGAWA, Publisher & Art-printer,
Tokyo, Japan.
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