: A Japanese Blossom by Watanna Onoto Ziegler L W Illustrator - Japan Fiction

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Illustrator: L. W. Ziegler

ONOTO WATANNA

ILLUSTRATED BY

L. W. ZIEGLER

Published October, 1906.

"MARION SAT ON A GIGANTIC 52 MOSS-GROWN ROCK, LOOKING ... AT THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY POND"

"THE LITTLE WAITRESS BROUGHT HER 170 SAMISEN, AND ... BEGAN TO PLAY AND SING"

"HE SEIZED HER HAND SUDDENLY IN HIS 226 OWN AND FELL ON HIS KNEES BEFORE HER"

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THE children sat in a little semi-circle about their grandmother, listening intently as she read to them the last letter from their father in America. Ever since they could remember, his business as a tea merchant had taken him away from Japan on long visits to the foreign countries. His latest absence had continued for three years now, and little Juji--born a short time after his departure--had never seen him.

As the grandmother finished the letter, the children instinctively looked first of all at Juji, sitting there in placid indifference, stolidly sucking his thumb. Juji had ceased to be the baby of the Kurukawa family. Afar off in America a new, strange baby had been born, and had taken the place of Juji, just as its mother one year before had taken the place of Juji's mother, who was dead.

When the old grandmother, with whom they made their home, had gently broken the news to the children that their father had taken a new wife from the daughters of America, she had impressed upon them the seriousness of their duty to their new parent. They must love her as a mother, revere her as their father's wife, remember her with their father in their prayers, and endeavor to learn those things which would be pleasing to her.

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