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... Behind the surrounding wall of the house, there is a pine tree. At the approach of winter, a gardener comes to gather up the dead pine needles and uses them to cover the beds of the little garden.
When Kii-chan comes home from school and starts to get bored, she goes out to play, ... , at the back of the house. That is where her mother and grandmother starch the washing and put it out to dry. ... (pp. 29-30)
— Dec 03, 2013 12:30AM
When Kii-chan comes home from school and starts to get bored, she goes out to play, ... , at the back of the house. That is where her mother and grandmother starch the washing and put it out to dry. ... (pp. 29-30)
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... Seated around a large table we consumed the pheasant simmering in a pot. And I sincerely wished good luck to the pale young man in the gaudy kokura silk hakama. After my visitors had taken their departure, I wrote him a few words of thanks. And I added that he need no longer worry about the money I had lent him the year before. (p. 69)
— Dec 09, 2013 03:48AM
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... The truth is that I do not know where to start. I have to edit an article for the paper. I have promised to read two or three short stories sent to me by an unknown young man who would like to know my opinion of them. ... The books I am supposed to have been reading in the course of these two or three months are piling up on my desk like a mountain. (p. 35)
— Dec 04, 2013 06:11PM
