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FROM KAMAKURA TO YEDO.
near by, apparently oblivious of anything horrible.
A group of four or five passers stood reading the
inscription on a board tacked on the pillory.
" Who is he ? " asked Honda of a by-stander.
"A joker," answered the man addressed, with a
heartless laugh.
" " A ! joker replied Honda testily, for he imagined
that he was being taken for a countryman and
that the fellow was making game of him.
" Why, yes ; every easterner, as I suppose, has
heard how the rich merchant, Mr. Middlefield, made
money by secretly trading with the American barbarians,
and how at a dinner to celebrate his gains he
boasted that the American fleet had been his ship
of good fortune."
"
Is it possible ? " found out ?
asked Honda. " When was he
"
"
Well, he was arrested and thrown into prison as
soon as the eye-appliers [spies] heard of his joke.
He was tried yesterday, sentenced this morning, and
had his head laid on a clay pillow about Horse time
(1 P. M.) this afternoon."
" Trade with the hairy foreigners will not become
popular at this rate," laughed Honda.
"Served the old
" These men of the
coin-counter right," said Ban.
ink-pot and ledger need to be
taught such lessons. But come, let us get into Yedo
before the gates close."
Through the long, rambling
suburbs of Shina-
gawa they made their way, and passing through
the densely crowded streets of Yedo, moved on till
near the foot of the Kudan, or Hill of Nine Steps.