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Title: Momotaro
Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 1

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 2, 2010 [EBook #33051]

Language: English

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JAPANESE
FAIRY TALE
SERIES NO 1

MOMOTARO.

[Illustration]

[Japanese: sei-fuku-kyo-fu-roku-to-ken-saku-cho]
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Published by
T. HASEGAWA,
17 Kami Negishi, Tokyo, Japan.

[Illustration]

MOMOTARO
OR
LITTLE PEACHLING.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

A long long time ago there lived an old man and an old woman. One day
the old man went to the mountains to cut grass; and the old woman went
to the river to wash clothes. While she was washing a great big thing
came tumbling and splashing down the stream. When the old woman saw it
she was very glad, and pulled it to her with a piece of bamboo that lay
near by.

[Illustration]

When she took it up and looked at it she saw that it was a very large
peach. She then quickly finished her washing and returned home intending
to give the peach to her old man to eat.

[Illustration]

When she cut the peach in two, out came a child from the large kernel.
Seeing this the old couple rejoiced, and named the child Momotaro, or
Little Peachling, because he came out of a peach. As both the old people
took good care of him, he grew and became strong and enterprising. So