'Tennyrate they wuz fastened to the pillars and didn't offer to hurt us.

We got quite a good meal, but queer, in a tea-house on the borders of the lake.

They had the best tea I ever drinked.

I asked 'em how long they steeped it, and how much they put in for a drawin', but they bein' ignorant didn't seem to understand me.

But I enjoyed bein' there, for whilst our inner men and wimmen wuz bein' refreshed our minds wuz enriched by this real picture of life in Japan, for in there it is jest as if we had traveled thousands of milds and wuz sot down in the real Japan.
After the edge of Josiah's hunger wuz squenched he begun to look about him and praise up the looks of the Geisha girls that wuz dancin' or rather posterin' in their pretty modest way, and some on 'em playin' on queer lookin' instruments that looked some like my carpet sweeper.
These girl musicians wuz settin' on the floor dressed in what seemed to be gay colored night gowns, and they looked well enough, kinder innocent and modest lookin'.