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Show 5 JAPANESK TITTLK,fc'OLK& jS- -Hr'atSo mora thaii u half years' i )0 'deuce 1n Japan, I hnvD.iicvc'r seen.'n'fi 0 rel' among young or'nid; I havq. lit rji seen a blow struck,. scarcely an ugly i r Idiavc-seeli the-cluldren at their; po 4 .flying their kites on the hilK aud amount of iutertangled strings or k Jr lodged-iit the trees provoked anjry wt ni or Impatience. 1 liavo seen tlieui in; 1T on tlicirgamea of Jackstonos'nnd juar. )Ji under' thu shaded gateways of the temj , but have never seen 011 approaoh 1 quarrel among them, lliey nre laji ;n implicit obedience tu their parqnls, bi t0 have never seen .0110 o( them clinstt St Itespeet and reverence to the og is k! 1 versal. A crying child is wlc L.e heard or sevii. We have nothing to le ,n them In this respect out of our uuund ; cirititalion. 1 spvuk what I know of it, little folks of Japan, fur more than 1 ,d oilier foreigner have I leeii among th it. Of all that Japan holds there is uotli c ; I like hall so well, as tho happy chihli ,"! I phall always remember their v'cry-bli t- eyeRamt rttjdv brown faces with pleasi n. ' 1 liavo played bat.tledoro with the )i1 In tinnideiis iu the strretF, acd flown kite; j.j the iields With as happy ft iCt of boyj .pi one .coiihl wish toisce. They haru h m j my guides iu my raroblev, shown mp wh j I the llowers Jay hid in thq thicket, wh jojtlic berries were ripeniug on tha hi: ;r tlicy hate tjrought mo shells from J ocean and blossoms from .tho litild, ji ' sentiirr them with all the modesty and a 1 e bashlul grace tltiin a young Awmrn boy would' do. -We havo'liuutad tho I (lioles toctlier, aud looked for thegri -f nnd golden, dueks aniojig thtt hedge Tl havo laughediit my broken Japanese a r taught me better, add tor hapjiy.c a Matured sot of cluldreo, 1 will, turn 1 (I 'my little Japaue-e -friends againt 1 |