"Now why do you go away when"—her momentary anger fled, and she laughed—"when birds flying to the wistaria? Go quickly, little maiden, and see if he is a robin, and if he has completed his nest—quickly."
The maid returned, and said that he was indeed a robin, but that he had no nest there as yet.
"Oh, how he is slow! Suzuki, let us fine 'nother robin, one that is more indus-tri-ous-an' domes-tic, aha, ha, ha!"
"They are all alike," said the girl, cynically.
"They not!-Say so!"
Suzuki giggled affirmatively. When her mistress took so violently to English she preferred to express herself in this truly Japanese fashion.
"Inform me, if you please, how much nearer beggary we are to-day than yesterday, Suzuki."
The girl had exact information for her on this subject. She said they had just seventeen yen, fifty-four sen, two rin.
"Alas—alas! How we have waste his beau-tiful moaneys! Tha' 's shame. But he will not permit that we starve—account he know we have no one aexcep' him. We
