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

p according to the original position of the tree from which it was hewn,-that is to say, with the part nearest to the roots downward. To erect a house-post in the contrary way

rom the timber, and wander about the rooms, head-downwards, making faces at people. Nor was this all. A Sakasa-bashira knew how to make all the affairs of a household go wrong,-how to foment domestic

-bas

i wa t

ro n

aru

za na

n? Surely that must have been the wo

aya

kité

-bas

taku

za na

ought here and erected upside-down-what carpenter's work can it

shi

?té t

ira

ama-g

ara

y planted upside-down, it will cert

ni

kiké

shim

i hash

i sur

ye? to the groaning and the creaking of th

-iy

we t

ar

é ga k

aka-b

came to me only a strange sound by way of reply,-the sound of the up

?ki

a-bas

ira-

ishit

ari

the pillar-tablet, attached to the pillar which was plant