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 goal. Our Japanese saying has it that the ship will go up the hill where there are too many sailors. We have too much talk in present Japan, have we not? Art has fallen, and poetry has fallen; and then other hundred worthy things have fallen; what we added to our original property was only a high hat marked a certain Chrysty and a frock coat. Oh what a farce!

How many people really know that it has already dawned when the crows cry?

It is not difficult to make a frame; the real issue is the picture itself. The Japanese Government has been making a frame for the country for many years past; and now when the frame fairly done, she finds that there is the night already, too dark to draw the picture.

Where is a mountain deep enough to hide me? And where is a river big enough to swallow me? I say it, not because I am great, but because I am I. I beg you, however, not to mistake me as a so-called individualist. Rh