“Therefore I entertain him to beer-ceremony at saloon of Hon. Strunsky, Irish patriot”
Letters of A Japanese Schoolboy
(“Hashimura Togo”)
BY WALLACE IRWIN Author of “The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum,” “Shame of the Colleges,” “Nautical Lays of a Landsman,” etc.
Illustrated by Rollin Kirby
New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1909
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1908, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1909
“Sometimes I sit and wonder in my artless Japanese way”—The Mikado
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS CAST UP BY THIS BOOK
Hashimura Togo—35-year aged Japanese Schoolboy.
Cousin Nogi—educated in horseracing & relidgeon.
Arthur Kickahajama—missionary boy.
Hon. Strunsky—Irish salooner.
Uncle Nichi—Japanese strawseed who come to America to be less so.
Mrs. Lusy Macdonald—complete angel of 286 pounds beauty.
Little Annie Anazuma—of kindergarten intelligence.
I. Anazuma—Japanese shave-proprietor.
J. Furo—who is dead.
G. W. McCann—prominent drunk.
Sydney Katsu, Jr.—who go Harvard study mollycuddling.
Miss Alice Furioki—wife to Cousin Nogi.
Miss Evelyn Suki—dear friend & more even.
Frank the Japanned Bootpolish.
S. Wanda—Japanese Socialist.
Whang So—China boy of sinful profile.
H. Sunigawa—Talented Japanese Spy.
Unknown Japanese—who call himself “Charley Smith” to get job in a bank.
