"How can I know what happened to me before I was born?"
Katsugoro looked surprised and exclaimed:
"Then you cannot remember anything that happened before you were born?"
"Do you remember?" asked Fusa.
"Indeed I do," replied Katsugorō. "I used to be the son of Kyūbei San of Hodo-kubo, and my name was then Tōzō—do you not know all that?"
"Ah!" said Fusa, "I shall tell father and mother about it."
But Katsugorō at once began to cry, and said:—
"Please do not tell!—it would not be good to tell father and mother."
Fusa made answer, after a little while:—
"Well, this time I shall not tell. But the next time that you do anything naughty, then I will tell."