The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories

supposed to create it. In old Japanese pictures it is represented as a tongue of pale red

in his own community, not outside of it; and the man who dared to ignore traditional custom in this regard would have found it difficult to appease the communal indignation. Even to-day the villager who, after a long absence from his birthplace, returns with a strange bride, is likely

s mouth. Presently the bone becomes luminous; and the figure of a woman defines about it,-the figure of a courtesan or singing-girl.... So the village query about the man who marries a strange wife, "What old horse-bone has he picked up?" signifies rea

omos

é no k

imé2

no u

i ya a

d in the time of fox-transformation!... Perhaps she is really n

uné-

ni ts

tam

ru y

-hoso-

soul of me is like to be extinguished in this narr