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Page 158
... bean jam , the brown stickiness which almost invariably adorns the cheeks of village children . If things went on like this she would be able to buy a set of foreign clothes of ' yofuku ' , and show off her bandy legs in artificial silk ...
... bean jam , the brown stickiness which almost invariably adorns the cheeks of village children . If things went on like this she would be able to buy a set of foreign clothes of ' yofuku ' , and show off her bandy legs in artificial silk ...
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... bean jam with a pair of chopsticks , he was per- fectly happy . His hobbies were caligraphy , the Chinese classics and Noh - singing , in which last he indulged for the good of his chest , producing apparently from the lower part of his ...
... bean jam with a pair of chopsticks , he was per- fectly happy . His hobbies were caligraphy , the Chinese classics and Noh - singing , in which last he indulged for the good of his chest , producing apparently from the lower part of his ...
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