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B.-What can you see in front of the station?

T.-Shimbashi Station and the Station Square or

Yard.

T.-'Rickshas and a carriage-and-pair waiting for

the train to arrive.

GLIMPSES OF TOKYO.

REAL CONVERSATIONS FOR SCHOOLS.

I. SCENE: SHIMBASHI STATION.

(The new English teacher, Mr. Brown, has just arrived from England. Tanaka, a student of the school at which he is going to teach, has come to meet him.

Tanaka sees a foreign gentleman with blue eyes and a red mustache, wearing a silk hat. He thinks this must be Mr. B., and goes up to him.)

Tanaka (raising his cap.) Excuse me, si, but are you Mr. Brown?

Mr. Brown. Yes, can you direct me to

Gakko?

T. With pleasure.

I have come for that very purpose. I am a student of that school.

B. How kind of you to come to meet me!

I was afraid I should have great difficulty in

(my

finding way as I

the

can't

I don't speak Japanese

and am an entire stranger to Tokyo.

7. No, I don't think you would have had any trouble, for our school is well-known to everybody, and the electric cars pass the fgate.

door.

B. Let us take a car to the school, then,

as I am anxious to meet

(your
the

and afterwards to find lodgings.

head-master

7. All right. I'll put your luggage in the Cloak Room, and you can send for it when you have found a place to stay at.

electric car.

This way to the

Follow me, sir.

II. IN THE CAR.

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T It was three sen before the War began,

but now it is five, including a war tax of one sen on each ticket.

B. Here is a 20-sen piece; please pay for both of us.

T

Don't trouble,

Never mind,

you needn't pay.

sir, I have a book of tickets,

B. But you must allow me to pay, Tanaka,

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