But she soon felt that to weep could avail her nothing. So wiping away her tears, she bravely resolved to try what she could do, and then putting on an apron, and tying back her sleeves, she set to work feeding the horses.
The great mercy of the gods cannot be understood; but it is certain that as she fed the first horse, all the others, through divine influence, were fully fed at the same time.
And the same wonderful thing happened when she waited upon the people of the house at mealtime, and when she dressed the hair of the girls, and when she twisted the threads of hemp, and when she went to kindle the fire in the furnaces.
But saddest of all it was to see Terute-Hime bearing the water-buckets upon her shoulders, taking her way to the distant spring to draw water.
And when she saw the reflection of her much-changed face in the water with which she filled her buckets, then indeed she wept very bitterly.
But the sudden remembrance of the cruel Chobei filled her with exceeding fear, and urged her back in haste to her terrible abode.
But soon the master of the joroya began to see that his new servant was no common woman, and to treat her with a great show of kindness.
(1)A house of prostitution.
IX. DRAWING THE CART
And now we shall tell what became of Kane-uji.