The Twins were so happy they could hardly keep still. They looked at all three rickshaws and all three men, and then they said to their Father: "May we ride in this one?" It had red wheels. "Yes, you may ride in that one," he said. Then he got into the one with green wheels, and rode away. Mother and Grannie and the Baby got into the next one, and their rickshaw man trotted away after Father. "Keep close behind us," the Mother called back to the Twins. They got into the rickshaw with the red wheels, and away they flew. The Twins had never been in a rickshaw alone before in all their lives.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
The men who tried to go with the Russians are equally unfortunate. Think of us as wandering around each with a copy of Murray seeing sights. That is all we really do, All my love. YOKOHAMA--April 2, 1904. DEAR MOTHER:
I just got your letter dated the 28th of February and the days following in which you worried over me in the ice coated trenches of Korea. I read it in a rickshaw in a warm sun on my way to buy favors for a dinner to Griscom. We have had three warm days and no doubt the sun will be out soon. The loss of the sun, though, is no great one.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
DEAR MOTHER:
Today, we walked into our new house and tomorrow we will settle down there. We rented the furniture for the two unfurnished rooms; knives, forks, spoons, china for the table and extras for 35 dollars gold for two months. It took six men to bring the things in carts. They got nothing. Yesterday, I took two rickshaw men from half past twelve to half past five. Out of that time they ran and pushed me for two solid hours. Their price for the five hours was eighty cents gold. What you would pay a cabman to drive you from the Waldorf to Martin's.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
Evening. At 4 P.M. it was unpleasantly warm. Half-hour after sunset one needed a spring overcoat; by 8 a winter one. Durban is a neat and clean town. One notices that without having his attention called to it. Rickshaws drawn by splendidly built black Zulus, so overflowing with strength, seemingly, that it is a pleasure, not a pain, to see them snatch a rickshaw along. They smile and laugh and show their teeth--a good-natured lot.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
They sat up very straight, and held on tight because it bounced a good deal, and the rickshaw man could run very fast. "I feel as grand as a princess," Take whispered to Taro. "How do you feel?" "I feel like a son of the Samurai," Taro whispered back. That was the proudest feeling he could think of. There were so very many interesting things to see that the Twins didn't talk much for a while. You see, it's hard work to use your mouth and your eyes and your ears all at once. So the Twins just used their eyes. It was still quite early in the morning when they reached the city streets.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
By and by they reached the gate of the Temple grounds. All the rickshaws stopped here, and everybody got out. The Mother put Bot'Chan on her back, and they all started in a procession for the Temple. First walked the Father, looking very proud. Then came the Twins, looking quite proud, too. Then came Mother and Grannie and Bot'Chan and they looked proudest of all! When they got inside the gate, the Twins thought they were in fairyland. You would have thought so, too, if you could have been there with them.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》