A VISIT TO THE TEMPLE
"O Haha San," said Umé, "when we took little Yuki San to the temple for the first time, with whom did I sit in the jinrikisha?"
"It is not strange that you have no memory of it, little Plum Blossom," said her mother.
"Why, honorable mother?"
"Because you were ill from eating too many sweets the day before, and had to stay at home in your bed."
Umé laughed. "Now I do remember it," she said. "My unworthy head danced like a geisha girl when I tried to stand on my two feet."
Umé's mother looked at her little daughter reprovingly. "Do not speak so easily of such girls, Umé-ko," she said.
"Was Tara taken to the temple when he was thirty days old?"
"Yes, my daughter."
"But, Mother San, with whom did I ride then?"