Part 21 (1/2)
Passepartout wandered for several hours in thein at the s of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establish with quaint japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streae was being drunk with saki, a liquor concocted fro-houses, where they were puffing, not opiuy tobacco He went on till he found himself in the fields, in theca forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the japanese cultivate rather for their blosso scarecrows protected froeons, ravens, and other voracious birds On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles; a ere herons, sole; and on every hand were crows, ducks, haild birds, and a multitude of cranes, which the japanese consider sacred, and which to theirlife and prosperity
As he was strolling along, Passepartout espied so the shrubs
”Good!” said he; ”I'll have so them, he found that they were odourless
”No chance there,” thought he
The worthy fellow had certainly taken good care to eat as hearty a breakfast as possible before leaving the Carnatic; but, as he had been walking about all day, the de importunate
He observed that the butchers stalls contained neitheralso that it is a sacrilege to kill cattle, which are preserved solely for far, he made up his mind that meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama--nor was he mistaken; and, in default of butcher's meat, he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar or deer, a partridge, or soame or fish, which, with rice, the japanese eat almost exclusively But he found it necessary to keep up a stout heart, and to postpone the ht came, and Passepartout re-entered the native quarter, where he wandered through the streets, lit by vari-coloured lanterns, looking on at the dancers, ere executing skilful steps and boundings, and the astrologers who stood in the open air with their telescopes Then he came to the harbour, which was lit up by the resin torches of the fisher from their boats
The streets at last became quiet, and the patrol, the officers of which, in their splendid costuht see crowd Each time a company passed, Passepartout chuckled, and said to hi for Europe!”
Chapter XXIII
IN WHICH PassEPARTOUT'S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG
The nextpoor, jaded, faet so to eat at all hazards, and the sooner he did so the better He ht, indeed, sell his watch; but he would have starved first Now or never he , if not melodious voice which nature had bestowed upon his, and resolved to try them upon the japanese, whoon their cymbals, tam-tams, and tambourines, and could not but appreciate European talent
It was, perhaps, rather early in the et up a concert, and the audience preht not possibly pay their entertainer with coin bearing the Mikado's features
Passepartout therefore decided to wait several hours; and, as he was sauntering along, it occurred to hi artist The idea struck hiarments for clothes et a little er The resolution taken, it re search that Passepartout discovered a native dealer in old clothes, to whoe ThePassepartout issued from his shop accoutred in an old japanese coat, and a sort of one-sided turban, faded with long use A few sled in his pocket
”Good!” thought he ”I will iine I a thus ”japanesed,” was to enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whoht he, when he had eaten heartily, ”I ain for one still more japanese I must consider how to leave this country of the Sun, of which I shall not retain the htful of memories, as quickly as possible”
It occurred to him to visit the steamers which were about to leave for America He would offer hie and oing on The difficulty was, how to traverse the four thousand seven hundred miles of the Pacific which lay between japan and the New World
Passepartout was not the , and directed his steps towards the docks But, as he approached thean to grow more and more formidable to his mind What need would they have of a cook or servant on an American steamer, and what confidence would they put in hiive?
As he was reflecting in this wise, his eyes fell upon an ih the streets This placard, which was in English, read as follows:
ACROBATIC japANESE TROUPE, HONOURABLE WILLIAM BATULCAR, PROPRIETOR, LAST REPRESENTATIONS, PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE TO THE UNITED STATES, OF THE LONG NOSES! LONG NOSES!
UNDER THE DIRECT PATRONAGE OF THE God TINGOU!
GREAT ATTRACTION!
”The United States!” said Passepartout; ”that's just what I want!”
He followed the clown, and soon found himself once more in the japanese quarter A quarter of an hour later he stopped before a large cabin, adorned with several clusters of streaned to represent, in violent colours and without perspective, a colers
This was the Honourable Williaentleman was a sort of Barnulers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists, and gy his last perfor the Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union