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In the eleventh month Goto went alone to Sapporo. On the second day of the second month, thirty-third year of Meiji [1900], Goto-Shi returned to Tōkyō; and on the fourteenth day of the same month he went away again to the Hokkaidō [Yezo], taking Yoshi with him.
On the twentieth day of the second month, at six o'clock in the morning, my third child—a boy—was born. Both mother and child were well.
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—We had expected a girl, but it was a boy that was born; so, when my husband came back from his work, he was greatly surprised and pleased to find that he had a boy.
—But the child was not well able to take the breast: so we had to nourish him by means of a feeding-bottle.
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On the seventh day after the boy's birth, we partly shaved his head. And in the evening we had the shichiya [seventh-day festival]—but, this time, all by ourselves.
—My husband had caught a bad cold some time before; and he could not go to work next morning, as he was coughing badly. So he remained in the house.