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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields

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1 I | of the senses counts for little: you know there are ever 2 I | the fresh soft clapping of little~{p. 8}~hands, and remember 3 I | to dance with tinkling of little bells, with waving of silken 4 I | between different villages, - little peasant wars about questions 5 I | differently ordered; but in any little country village the universal 6 I | him that evening but his little grandson, a lad of ten; 7 I | p. 20}~   Within a very little time the whole village had 8 I | lives by the sacrifice. Little Tada ran to~{p. 26}~him, 9 I | Then the old man wept a little, partly because he was happy, 10 II | youth of the race, these little gushes of song, like the 11 II | or unlucky. Sometimes a little pipe - geishas' pipes are 12 II | say it first!~VI~Such a little word only to say, "I love 13 II | Thus was it that these little songs, composed in different 14 III | 15th of the tenth month. Little festival medals of nickel, 15 III | each was sheltered by a little wooden awning, in others 16 III | could distinguish those little finger-marks of which Mr. 17 III | miracle, and adopted the little boy, whose present name 18 III | out Western cooking, in little tin boxes, to native hotels; 19 III | of universal interest." A little farther on, some popular 20 III | wealth. What made me feel a little ancient was to recognize 21 III | tentacles when you blew into a little rush tube fixed under its 22 III | minds, because the myriad little details and suggestions 23 III | egotistical manner possible, - little children to the front, adults 24 III | Kwammu-Tennô, and to drink a little rice wine in his honor, 25 III | After the libation, the little priestess packed the white 26 III | the most beloved are queer little presents thus obtained.~ 27 III | been recently trimmed. A little wooden awning erected in 28 III | and her burial. I bought a little book containing the story 29 III | wind touches them. Again a little while, and the wind will 30 III | commonplace revelations, my little sketch, "Yuko," written 31 III | thousands of copies of the little book about her were sold. 32 III | honest robes and girdle, the little cheap purse, the memoranda 33 III | There is more truth in the little verse poor Yuko wrote on 34 IV | butterflies, and plenty of little stones. I stop to look at 35 IV | of peasants' huts, - and little mud temples, and mud gardens 36 IV | which have on their heads little red characters said to be 37 IV | maturity. Of course, if these little ones were told, some bright 38 IV | doubt and pain; and these little boys and girls, being Japanese 39 IV | thought, and shrivels up the little wings of dreams.~   To-day 40 IV | thereafter vanish away. But the little shadows and the Shadow-Eater 41 IV | The cooing voice of a little girl dissolves my reverie. 42 IV | world-priestess she is, this dear little maid, with her dove's voice 43 V | Japan, as illustrated in little books costing only a few 44 V | having at last learned a little, it is the Western art of 45 V | newspaper or magazine I can find little pleasure in the engravings. 46 V | The first was with a little boy, nine years old, before 47 V | not in earnest.~ ~   To a little girl of eleven I showed 48 VI | unemotional as the chanting of the little kettle over its charcoal 49 VI | brother and myself, and a little sister. Father was a hyôguya, 50 VI | coffin containing only a little figure of straw, - wara-ningyô; 51 VI | write the kaimyô for these little gravestones. By making a 52 VI | brother, myself, and my little sister. My brother was nineteen 53 VI | Yes, mother, yes! - in a little while I shall come!' Then 54 VI | and cried; and I and my little sister cried. But our brother 55 VI | us, and~{p. 129}~sang a little song that she made herself. 56 VI | was dead. Then I and my little sister were separated. My 57 VII | well up to date," or even a little in advance of it, which 58 VII | our "ulster," and has a little cape attached to it: the 59 VII | time. They push out funny little galleries with balustrades; 60 VII | method of reckoning can be of little service to a stranger. If 61 VII | anxious only in the matter of little sister~{p. 152}~O-Noto; - 62 VII | As a matter of fact, very little remains of the original 63 VII | bodies speckled all over with little balls of white paper spat 64 VII | them thousands of toys; little dogs and horses and cows, 65 VII | dresses of dead children. Little boys and girls, kneeling 66 VII | time the bell sounds, some little ghost is believed to hear, - 67 VII | the happy laughter of the little folk at play on the floor, - 68 VII | Catholicism remains to-day, how little it has changed since the 69 VII | large family who keep a little tea-house on the road to 70 VII | top of which is a perfect little green model or the tree, - 71 VII | that a Japanese city is little more than a wilderness of 72 VII | there being comparatively little space for gardens in Ôsaka; 73 VII | Japanese street may appear little better than a row of wooden 74 VII | years ago I wrote that a little acquaintance with the Japanese 75 VII | that Western artists have little more to learn from the study 76 VII | the time and season? These little æsthetic gratifications, 77 VII | correspondents squatting before little desks less than two feet 78 VII | exactly a salary, but a little special remuneration every 79 VIII | undertaking mainly to dodoitsu, - little songs of twenty-six syllables 80 VIII | comparative novelty. We have very little English verse of any class 81 VIII(1)| children are obliged to pile up little stones, the weight of which 82 IX | should be heard by beings of little faith, - by those who believe 83 IX | that our mental life is little more than a flow of feelings 84 IX | now we may venture for a little while into the most fantastic 85 IX | popular beliefs in this little study, nor of doctrines 86 IX | relation to the purpose of this little essay. We have only to do 87 X | fancy of a child, she gave little heed to it. Afterwards, 88 X | Fusa made answer, after a little while: - ~   "Well, this 89 X | and so could spare but little time for any other matter, 90 X | had nightly to suckle her little daughter Tsuna, who was 91 X | went away. I remained a little time under the kaki-tree 92 X | father was now earning so little, mother would have to go 93 X(1) | given to errand-boys and little boy-servants sometimes, - 94 X(1) | former days the heads of little boys were shaved. I think 95 XI | to look back more than a little way.~   "Still you are bewitched


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