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Book Excerpt: w it. I confess I was reallyglad of the money. I put it in a bag, and carried it in my pocket. Whileabout the house, I happened to drop the bag into a cesspool. Helpless, Itold Kiyo how I had lost the money, and at once she fetched a bamboostick, and said she will get it for me. After a while I heard asplashing sound of water about our family well, and going there, sawKiyo washing the bag strung on the end of the stick. I opened the bagand found the edict of the three one-yen bills turned to faint yellowand designs fading. Kiyo dried them at an open fire and handed them overto me, asking if they were all right. I smelled them and said; "Theystink yet.""Give them to me; I'll get them changed." She took those three bills, and, --I do not know how she went about it, --brought three yen in silver.I forget now upon what I spent the three yen. "I'll pay you back soon,"I said at the time, but didn't. I could not now pay it back even if Iwished to do so with ten times the amount.When Kiyo gave me aRead M
