The Tea-Party on the train.
"Are we going to have a tea-party?" asked June, scrambling down from his perch.
"So," said Seki San, reaching under the seat and pulling out a tiny chest, in which were other cups and saucers and a jar of tea leaves, "we will have very nice tea-parties and you shall make the tea."
June, following instructions, put some of the tea in the small pot and poured the hot water over it, then he helped Seki San spread two paper napkins on the seat between them.
"Now," he said, "where's the party?"
Seki San handed him one of the boxes and began to untie the string of the other.
"I have some sticks tied on to mine!" cried June, "two big ones and a tiny little one wrapped up in paper."
"That is your knife and fork and pick-tooth," said Seki San. "You must hold the sticks in one hand like this."