But I told him it wuzn't becomin' in a old man and a professor to be so enthusiastick over young girls dancin' and playin'.
And he sez, "Oh, well, fetch on your girl blinders and I'll put 'em on.
But till you git 'em for me and harness me up in 'em I've got to look round some." But I told him there wuz enough for him to see besides girls and there wuz.

For it beats all what long strides the Japans have made in every branch of education and culture.

If they keep on in the next century as they have in this some of the so-called advanced nations will have to take a back seat and let this little brown, polite people stand to the head.

But then they have been cultured for hundreds of years, though lots of folks don't seem to know it.
But I am sorry to say it wuzn't the high art and culture of Japan that Josiah wuz most interested in, but the queer things, such as the strange stunted trees trained into forms of men and animals hundreds of years old and no higher than a common chair, and lots of 'em not so high.

And there wuz roosters with tails twenty-five feet long.
Josiah said he wuz bound to git an egg and see if he could hatch one.
And I sez, "Where would it roost?
It's tail is long agin as the hen house is high." Well, he said in the summer it could roost on top of the barn with its tail kinder hangin' down and out over the smoke house.
But it wuzn't a minute before his eyes wuz took up with some images, some big ones covered with the most exquisite carvin', down to them so small, if you'll believe it, they wuz carved out of a single kernel of rice.