o[u]_ Kohei. Sa! Yoshi San, in accordance with
the bargain I give you five _ryo[u]_."

_Yoshi_--"_Do[u]mo!_ Thanks are felt."

_Kikugoro[u]_--"There they are. Yoshi San, you are a brave fellow. Life
in a haunted house is unpleasant. It will be well to remove elsewhere."

_Yoshi_--"Iya! A haunted house is splendid. A friend just now came for
the return of borrowed money. When told of a ghost appearing, he fled.
Again, merely for noting what the ghost wears, you tell me I will get
five _ryo[u]_. All this is due to the honoured shadow of the ghost. Thus
regarding (my) Yurei Dai Myo[u]jin Sama,[48] to abandon such a splendid
ghost and remove to some other place would change my luck. My purpose is
to go on living with this ghost."

_Kikugoro[u]_--"In that case, Yoshi San, it would be well to have the
house cleaned. _Do[u]mo!_ Don't you think it is the work of fox or
_tanuki_?"

_Yoshi_--"Naruhodo! At all events I'll have the house cleaned." So
receiving the money from Kikugoro[u], rejoicing Yoshi returned to the
Yoshiwara. On the way he took a glass or so. Somewhat drunk, he entered
the Tanaka no Mikawaya, a _tabi_ (sock) shop. The house was the owner of
the place where Tsutayoshi lived.

_Yoshi_--"Good-day."

_Mikawaya_--"Oya! Yoshi San. Are you on your return? Ma! Condescend to
enter. _Do[u]mo!_ The theatre now pleases the people. The audiences are
large."

_Yoshi_--"Thanks are felt."

_Mikawaya_--"What your business, Yoshi San?"

_Yoshi_--"Danna, I would like to have the house cleaned."

_Mikawaya_--"Cleaned?"

_Yoshi_--"_Do[u]mo!_ At present a supernatural object appears. It is
vexing. As I will furnish the wages of the workman, I thought it would
be well to have it cleaned."

_Mikawaya_--"Hei! What appears?"

_Yoshi_--"At times a ghost shows itself."

_Mikawaya_--"A ghost?"

_Yoshi_--"Once it showed itself beside the _andon_. The second time it
was seen in the necessary. At evening it was seated at the entrance to
the stairs. There is nothing to fear, unless it be the work of fox or
badger. It would be bad for outsiders to get wind of it; so I would like
to have the place cleaned."

_Mikawaya_--"Is it man or woman?"

_Yoshi_--"There is no doubt of its being a man, of small stature. His
dress plainly is of grey cotton."

_Mikawaya_--"A dress of grey cotton--the man of small stature. Un!
Jo[u]! It is that low fellow."

_Yoshi_--"Oi! Oi! Danna, did you know him? Was he a wicked fellow?
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