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on account of his long Japanese residence he would make a valuable
companion. The party took the cars at the fine railroad station of
stone in Yokohama. Everything was now ready, and the engine
commencing to spit and cough. as if to get cinders out of its throat,
the cars rumbled away.

“Oh see,” said Ralph looking’ out of a car-window, there’s a —”

“ Jinrikisha,” said the doctor.

“Jim Ricker’s Shay?” asked Rick. “Who’s he?”

“It isn’t a boy—it’s a carriage,” said Ralph chagrined at the
younger Rogers’ ignorance of Japanese facts.

“A jinrikisha is for riding purposes, and it always seemed to me
like an American baby carriage. One man draws, and another pushes
behind, when a long distance is to be travelled, but in short journeys
a single man draws. It goes faster than a baby carriage, I can assure
you, for the men propelling it are strong fellows. You can travel
forty miles a day, and more even in the jinrikisha—style. One
day, I went seventy-two miles, riding from five in the morning to seven
at night, changing men. The jinrikisha moves at about the rate of
an American horse-car. We rely on them a good deal for riding pur-
poses, and while there are hundreds of jinrikishas in Yokohama, in
Tokiyo there are thousands. It is cheap riding, only two cents for a
short distance ; and for ten cents you can keep your jinrikisha an hour,
and for fifty cents all day. The motion in this carriage is a little
peculiar, but you get used to it.”

After this statement by the doctor, Rick made up his mind it must
be splendid to ride in “Jim Ricker’s Shay” and resolved to try it at the
first opportunity that offered.

Looking out of the car-windows again, they saw a cart in a road
near by. The cart was heaped high with vegetables. In front, pulled
w man, and behind the cart was a woman who pushed with docility.