"You sneezed, though," said Taro. "That's just as bad. It will wake up our honorable parents just the same."
"Well, you shouldn't tickle my poor little nose, then," said
Take.
"Your honorable nose was tickled so that you would wake up and hear the birds sing," said Taro. "It is much nicer than sleeping! Besides, do you remember what is going to happen to-day? We are going to take Bot'Chan to the Temple!"
A temple is something like a church, only they do not do the same things in temples that we do in our churches.
The Twins loved to go to the Temple, because they had a very good time when they went there. They liked it as much as you like Thanksgiving Day and the Fourth of July.
When Take remembered that they were going to take Bot'Chan to the Temple, she clapped her little brown hands. "Oh, I'm so glad!" she said. Then she popped out from under the covers of her bed and stood up on the soft straw matting.
She was no sooner out of bed than from far away came the "Cling-cling-clang" of a great gong. And then, "Tum-tum-t-y-y-rum" rolled a great drum.
"Hark!" said Taro. "There go the Temple bells, and the priests are beating the sunrise drums! It's not so very early, after all."
"Now, you'll hear Grannie's stick rapping for the maids to get up," Take answered. "The Temple bells always wake her."
And at that very minute, "Rat-tat-tat" sounded Grannie's stick on the woodwork of the room where the maids slept.