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WA.

75

Konnichi

To-day

gozaimasu.

wa,

as-for,

yoi good

tenki de

weather

Oki wa, yohodo nami ga

Offing as-for, plentifully waves (now.)

arai yd desu kara, fune

at- for probably-won't-go-onl

To-day it is fine weather, (i.e. Whatever it may have been other days, to-day at least it is fine.)

Out at sea the

waves seen pretty iugh ; so pro-

not


lma wa te-siiki

JT**> as-for, hand-empty

de gozaimasu).} Now I am

am / j a t leisure.

Koko no ido wa, } The ^ater in this well Here '* well as-for, [ comes from the aqueduct. suido desu. [(Not The well here is an

water-road *, J aqueduct !)

Kore de wa komarimasu. .

This by am-hampcrcd

This being so, I am in a quandary. (The de wa may be contracted into ja ; see p. 56.)

Tabako wa,

Tobacco as-for,

As for tobacco, I don'

it, or more simply don't smoke.

Kore wa

waset,

are This (is) of nativet

    • '*z as ;- fot <? a *" t "-" ta * f > tha ' make, that is an imported

wa hakurai (de gozaimasu). ( .

r#-/or, importation (is) ) article.

Nishi wa Fuji,

Vest as-for, Fnsiyautaf

kita wa Tsvkuba de

north as-for* Tstikttba

gozaimasu.

(it) is

To the west stands Fusiyama, to the north Mount Tsukuba.