The Story of Saidjah part 4
Afterwards she hoped that the buffalo understood her, for he must have known why she wept when he was taken away, and that it...
The Story of Saidjah part 3
Once when they were in the field, Saidjah called in vain to his buffalo to make haste. The animal did not move. Saidjah grew...
The Story of Saidjah part 2
The buffalo turned willingly, on reaching the end of the field, not losing an inch of ground when plowing backwards the new furrow, which...
The Story of Saidjah part 1
Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli) (1820—1887)
Dekker was for many years an Assistant Resident official of the Dutch government in Java. Out of his bitter experiences...
A Domestic Animal part 5
“Thither she escaped, hither she ran!”
The confusion itself was very extraordinary.
“Surely, Pup is killed,” Ko chan said, trembling.
At last, she has escaped. A man...
A Domestic Animal part 4
Meanwhile, the spring has come. And at the time when the frost began to melt she seemed to be quite grown up. All the...
A Domestic Animal part 3
It was not only once or twice that she met such hard experiences. But she was not a dog to be crushed down by...
A Domestic Animal part 2
There was an old Mokusei in the garden. She decided to make of their shade her resting place; stretching out her four legs on...
A Domestic Animal part 1
Shimazaki Toson (1871-1943)
Shimazaki Toson began writing as a poet of the new era, but after the Russo-Japanese war, he turned to naturalistic fiction. He...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 5
This condition of lonely self-torment lasted a long while, and increased his exasperation.
And then, one day, he noticed that his healthy foot was growing...