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Title: The fairy foxes. A chinese legend
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Publisher: Yokohama : Kelly and Walsh Tokyo, T. Hasegawa
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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l, however, more inclinedto laugh than to fret about it. Say went in with his mother to his sister-in-lawsroom, and asked to see Chin. But poor Chin wasdelirious: My son, then said his old mother, « thesemischievous Foxes have done us much harm, but Iforgive them for having played you this trick andbrought you back from the land of Cho. At least theyax-e the cause that mother and son are reunited, andby this good deed alone their faults are atoned for!We must not be too hard upon the Foxes. For two months Chin was in raging fever, then hebegan to get better. They called him in all the country t\ ■ ^.vnoNi .- loom ..-■•■ ( 43 ) round the Robber, because he had robbed the Foxesof their book that they lo\Ld above their life, The Serpent, creeps, the Tiger springs: each brute has his device;The Foxes sacred books possess, and hold beyond all price.Whilst houses fall and goods are lost, and the books too disappear;Yet will mn&n laugh at poor Chin Wang for many a thousand year!
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LIST OF BOOKS CREPE PAPER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS. JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES. No. 1. Momotaro or Little Peachling. 2. The Tongue Gut Sparrow. 3. The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab. 4. The Old man who made the dead Trees Blossom. 5. ICachi-kachi Mountain.0. The Mouses Wedding. 7. The Old Man and the Devils. 8. Uiashima, the Fisher-Boy. 9. The Eight-Headed Serpent.lO. The Matsuyama Mirror. 11. The Hare of Inaba. 12. The Cubs Triumph. 13. The Silly Jelly-Fish. 14. The Princes Fire-Flesh and Fire-Fade.16. My Lord Bag-o-Rice. 16. The Wooden Bowl. 17. Sehippeitaro. 18. The Ogres Arm. 19. The Ogres of Oyeyama. 20. The Enchanted waterfall. JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES, Enlarged Edition. 21. Three Reflections. 22. The Flowers of Remembrance and Eorgetfulness. 23. The Old woman who lost her Dumpling (in the press). PRINCESS SPLENDOR. THE CHILDRENS JAPAN. JAPANESE JINGLES. THE ONLY COODLES. OYUCHASAN. THE RATS PLAINT. KOHANASAN. A DAY WITH M1TSU. JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES • French Edi

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