“The train rushed like a maddened dragon. It was verily an astonishingly ghastly spectacle as any human thought could ever picture. I thrilled with a feeling of tragic ecstasy, which is the highest emotion.
“Can you recollect that you and I once stood under the darkest rains without an umbrella, and laughed hysterically?
“I love shocking emotion.
“Since I was touched by the continental air, I measure my lungs dilating two inches bigger. How sorry I shall be for you when I return! You are so tiny! I expect myself to be five inches higher within the next few months.
“Amerikey is the country where everything grows, don’t you know?
“Even the stars look a deal larger than in Japan.
“Looking back at the Rocky Mountains,
“Yours,
“Asagao”
6th—The rocking of the train makes us babies in the cradle.