i20 ALE ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

Blacksmith and Cooper. There are those named after trees or
flowers like Cedar and Chrysanthemum. Plum. Orchard street may
be found, also Wheat and Indigo streets. There are those pore
fanciful names like ‘ Abounding Gladness.’ ”

They had been looking at the signs displayed by different stores.
A goldbeater announced his presence by huge spectacles, substituting
gold for glass. The kite-maker was advertised by a cuttle-fish, and
a trader in cut flowers showed the sign of a little willow tree. Every
spiked white ball—and these would average eighteen inches in
diameter — threw the boys into a pleasureable excitement, for the
white ball meant a candy shop. Still strolling about, Ralph suddenly
exclaimed, “There is water, doctor!”

“ Yes, that is a canal, very handy in carrying goods Anan ‘and we
jave many canals in Tokiyo.”

“Couldn’t we have a boat-ride, Uncle Nat?”

“Oh yes, I would like to have a ride myself. Here, here. Take
us round, won't you?” said Uncle Nat, calling to a boatman who
brought his craft to the bank at once. “Don’t you see, boys, how
he understood me.’ Hither I talk good Japanese, or he knows good
English. Step aboard! ”

The craft was one that carried what the boys called “a cunning
cabin,” a little house in the centre, and through its windows. they
could look and see what was passing, as the boatman. polled it
along. There were the skiffs of fruit sellers, and boats loaded with
merchandise, or fishermen sculled along their crafts while boys on
the banks took their first lesson in the piscatory art, and into the
canal dropped their lines “for a bite.”

“We go at a pretty good rate, don’t we, Rick? Almost as fast as
you did, last summer, when you tried to make that boat go,” said
Ralph.