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Timeless Desire by Torie N. James6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() “Wonder of wonders! For five-and-thirty years I’ve cut bamboo. Také Tori took his axe and cut down the great big green bamboo, and there was a fine shining green jewel, the size of his two fists. Sure enough it came from the root of a great big green bamboo. “No, thatcannot well be, for it comes from the ground.” Very soon he pushed his way through the bamboo stems to see what the bright light came from. “What is this?” said Také Tori, for as a rule it was dim and shady enough in the bamboo grove. Soon he saw a bright light shining among the green stems of the bamboos. ![]() ![]() “I am not so young as I once was, nor the good wife either, and there’s no chick nor child to help us in our old age, more’s the pity.” He sighed as he got to work, poor Také Tori. ![]() He took his blue tenegui and wiped his forehead, “Alack for my old bones!” he said. Up the steep hillside he went, and came to the bamboo grove quite wearied out. Také Tori rose early upon a summer morning, and went forth to cut bamboos as was his wont, for he sold them for a fair price in the town, and thus he gained his humble living. Children they had none, and little comfort in their old age, poor souls. He was an honest old man, very poor and hard-working, and he lived with his good old wife in a cottage on the hills. There was an old bamboo cutter called Také Tori. ![]()
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