Having killed the squirrel, the hawk took his proper shape again, and the young man returned joyfully to his father, whom he made immensely rich.
CHAPTER XXI
THE PEACH'S SON
Japanese[290:1]
[290:1] From "Myths and Legends of Japan," by F. Hadland Davis.
One day, while an old woman stood by a stream washing her clothes, she chanced to see an enormous peach floating on the water. It was quite the largest she had ever seen, and as this old woman and her husband were extremely poor she immediately thought what an excellent meal this extraordinary peach would make. As she could find no stick with which to draw the fruit to the bank, she suddenly remembered the following verse:
Distant water is bitter,
The near water is sweet;
Pass by the distant water
And come into the sweet.