![]() It was no day for swimming and the woodcutters took shelter in the ferryman's hut,-thinking themselves lucky to find any shelter at all. They reached the ferry and they found that the boatman had gone away, leaving his boat on the other side of the river. Way home, one very cold evening, when a great snowstorm overtook them. No common bridge can resist the current there when the river rises. Several times a bridge was built where the ferry is but the bridge was each time carried away by a flood. On the way to that forest there is a wide river to cross and there is a ferry-boat. Every day they went together to a forest situated about five miles from their village. At the time of which I am speaking, Mosaku was an old man and Minokichi, his apprentice, was a lad of eighteen years. ![]() In a village of Musashi Province, there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku and Minokichi. ![]()
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