SIGHT-SEEING IN TOKIYO. 123

«What was that, Rick?” inquired Uncle Nat.

Rick was blushing. He did not recall that exploit with satisfaction,
for it was one day when deeply in love with a very young lady at
a summer resort, he attempted to give her a boat-ride on an adjacent
pond, and in his excitement had forgotten to untie the rope!

Ralph very kindly spared the champion oarsman any further morti-
fication, and the subject
was dropped.

 

 

Another day, they went
to the famous Nihon Bashi,

 

 

 

 

a bridge, and from it looked
off upon the tiled roofs of
the city and upon the
snowy cone of Fugisan.
Before them, too, were the
towers of the famous cas-
tle of Tokiyo. This castle
was also visited. They
saw its walls of stone, the
deep, wide moats without,

 

extending eleven miles in THE CHAMPION OARSMAN.
all. That day, one other
noteworthy place was reached, a. palace belonging to the emperor. Beau-
tiful grounds measuring a hundred acres adjoined this palace.
“This is a big place,” observed Uncle Nat “ this city of Tokiyo.”
“Yes, captain, and so the old emperor Iyeyasu was right when
he believed the city would be something, and in making bounds
for Tokiyo, he went far beyond the settled quarters and set up towers
and gates without any connecting walls, believing that’ some day
they would be erected. People laughed at his work, but he was