The following is the inscription in full:
“Here dwelt the Pumpkin Giant once. He’s dead the nation doth rejoice, For, while he was alive, he lived By e——g dear, fat, little boys.”
The inscription is said to remain to this day; if you were to go there you would probably see it.
LADY WHITE AND LADY YELLOW
(A Legend of Japan)
Frederick Hadland Davis
The sixteen petal chrysanthemum is one of the crests of the Imperial family.
Long ago there grew in a meadow a white and a yellow chrysanthemum side by side. One day an old gardener chanced to come across them and he took a great fancy to Lady Yellow. He told her that if she would come along with him he would make her far more attractive; that he would give her delicate food and fine clothes to wear.