The story begins with the finding of a wonderful peach which comes floating down a small stream and is brought to shore by a little Japanese woman, who takes it to her home. It there ... See full summary
A Japanese Peach Boy (1910) Online
The story begins with the finding of a wonderful peach which comes floating down a small stream and is brought to shore by a little Japanese woman, who takes it to her home. It there transpires that she and her husband are still mourning the loss of a baby, and the wonderful peach when it is cut brings healing to their sorrow, for as the father's hands separate the two parts of the luscious fruit, between them miraculously appears the figure of a tiny baby. It is a real Japanese baby (which no one could by any chance mistake tor a doll) and the parents' joy is very great. We next see the boy grown to eight years of age and the object of the loving affection of his parents. On their way home from the same little river, down which he came floating in the peach, they are forced to pass a cavern inhabited by Japanese ogres, monsters of most fearful mien, half-human and half-animal. The young mother and the boy are attacked by the ogres, and the boy draws his tiny sword and vigorously ...
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 | Madame Pilar-Morin | ||
 | Gladys Hulette |
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