These preliminaries being settled, Mr. Tomatsu Aoki, the Chief Director, and Mr. Shude Kane Nigishi, the principal teacher, both looking more like monkeys than men in their European clothes, lionised me.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Rather'n that, I'd go up to the closet an' catch off there for five minutes, before they Shude see I wern't fit to du me work.
"A Poor Man's House"
Stephen Sydney Reynolds