_Oh! the cruelty!_
Tells me to cut and make a hakama[100] out of rock!
If ever I cut and sew a hakama of rock,
Then you will learn to twist the fine sand into thread,--
_Twist it into thread._
--_Come! let us dance the Dance of the Honorable
Garden!_--
_Chan-chan!
Cha-cha!
Yoitomose,
Yoitomose!
Chan-chan-chan!_
[100] A divided skirt of a peculiar form, worn formerly
by men chiefly, to-day worn by female students
also.