Ayamesan Author:James Murdoch Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: eentral idea of Buddhism—t'ie intelleetual ealm whieh eomes of perfeeted knowledge and the subjugation of all passion. Bui to be fully appreeiated, the Daibutsu ... more »must be tn si ted many times" " Well now, no doubt thim were the sintimints av the tidal wave that twice ran away wid his house. But let us purceed wid the argyment." He again took up his parable, this time shouting at the top of his voice:— " The Dai-butsu is best seen from about halfway up the approaeh. Its dimeusions are approximately as follows :— Height—./(? ft. 7 in. "Oh! bother you !" said Clifford, striking the book from his hand. " I don't want to hear a pilfered sermon. Give us some original facts of your own. If they aren't handy, you'll manufacture them I know. It's a way of yours! " " Facts is it ye call fur? I scorn thim; it's only truth I'll tell yez. His bump av wisdom is 9 in. high, and it's bigger than the wan they raised on Paddy Maclure wid a shillelagh at the wake av his mother-in-law. An' his face is 8 fi. 5 in. in length, which is long enough fur a professional undertaker or a Methody lay-prachcr widout the extra inches. An' if yez make bould to vinturc widin his entrails, ye'll find that his bowels av compassion havefur their principal ingradients, emptiness, advertisements of curio stores and quack medicines, an' a foine colliction av the autographs av folks noted only fur baaol taste an' worse than faymale vanity. It was in 1612 that Saris's men first set the example tu scribblin' globe-trotters in that respect. They were the first sample of " 'Arry" in Japan, fur ould Will Adams was a gintleman an' wouldn't disgrace himself by lavin' any such a con- timptible ricord av insignificance behoind him." " Well, that may be so, but I don't want a lecture on ethics and manners,—at le...« less