Their Mother was already serving their Father's breakfast to him in the next room. By and by she and Grandmother would have their breakfast with the servants.
This is a picture of the Twins eating their breakfast.
They each had a tiny table of red lacquered wood. On each table were two bowls. In one bowl was soup, and in the other rice.
Taro took up his soup-bowl with both hands. He was in a hurry.
"Oh, Taro!" Take said. "What would Mother say! You must be more polite. You know that isn't the way to hold your bowl."
Taro set his bowl down again, and took it up carefully with one hand, just as you see him in the picture.
Take began to eat her rice. She had two little sticks in her right hand. She used these sticks instead of a fork or spoon.
But Take was in a hurry too. She spilled a little rice on the front of her kimono.
Taro saw it. "You're just as impolite as I am," he said. "It's just as bad to spill as it is to hold your bowl wrong."
"Oh, dear me! Then we're both impolite," said Take. "What would
Mother say!"