Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of Yone Noguchi
MY first sensation, when I got a Wilson's spell ing-book in my tenth year, was something I cannot easily forget I felt the same sensation when, eight years later, I first looked upon the threatening vastness of the ocean upon my embarking on an American liner, where I felt an uneasiness of mind akin to pain for the conquest of which I doubted my little power. I remember how I Slept every night with that spelling-book by my pillow, hoping to repeat the lesson whenever I awoke at midnight; the smell of the foreign book, which troubles my nostrils I feel even to-day when I think about it, charmed, mystified, and frightened my childish mind. My teacher, in fact the only one teacher in the whole town (tsushima in Owari province), who knew anything of English, soon A.
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