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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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myself to come to Kumano.But I have not a single acquain-tance here, nor anybody to whomI can turn. My only object wasto come straight-to you; and Iwas asking a man on the roadif he could direct me to yourhouse, when the man pointed toyou and said, Why, that gentle-man just ahead of us is the masterof the Daikokuya. And that ishow it comes that I ran up to youall of a sudden in this rude way. There was a charm in the freeutterance with which the boytold, his story, and having lis-tened to it, the gentleman said: I understand. It is all right. Asyou have no friends here, I will dowithout a recommendation, andyou shall come just as you are ;and saying this, he brought thelad back with him to his house. The Daikokuya, you mustknow, was the chief clothingestablishment, or dry-goodshouse, in Kumano, and did a larger business than any other in the town. On I lost my mother, he said, more than threearriving there, the master took the boy with him years ago, and my father only quite recently.
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IF YOU PLEASE, SIR, ARE YOU THE HEAD OF THE DAIKOKUYA into an inner room, and, telling his wife whathad taken place, called the boy to his side. Tell me, my boy, what is your name ? My name is Bunkichi. * Are your parents living ? At this question the boy hung his head sor- And what was your family ? Were youfarmers or tradesmen ? Neither one nor the other. My father for-merly served under the Lord of Wakayama, andreceived an allowance of eight hundred koku tof rice. His name was Igarashi Bunzayemon; \ Pronounced Boon-keechee. t One koku equals about five bushels. \ Pronounced Ee-gar-ashee Boon-zye-mon. 1904. OR FROM SHARK-BOY TO MERCHANT PRINCE. 779 but, losing his position, he came to Kada-no-Ura,where we had to live in a very poor way. Myfather, however, would never allow me to for-get that the ancestor of our house was IgarashiKobunji,* who served in old days at Kamakura,and gained a name for himself as a bravewarrior. And when you become a man, myfather used to say, you must win

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