BOTCHAN
haps say that because it is the west side of Hakone that the town had all the freaks and crooks dumped in together.[1]
I do not by nature worry about little things, and had come so far without minding anything. But hardly a month had passed since I came here, and I have begun to regard the world quite uneasily. I have not met with any particularly serious affairs, but I feel as if I had grown five or six years older. Better say “good by” to this old spot soon and return to Tokyo, I thought. While strolling thus thinking on various matters, I had passed the stone bridge and come up to the levy of the Nozeri river. The word river sounds too big; it is a shallow stream of about six feet wide. If one goes on along the levy for about twelve blocks, he reaches the Aioi village where there is a temple of Kwanon.
Looking back at the town of the hot springs, I
- ↑ A old saying goes that east of the Hakone pass, there are no apparitions or freaks.
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