Dinna forespeak them, woman! dinna forespeak them! said the man with a dark frown, and with equal earnestness, but with a tinge of superstitious alarm in his voice and manner. They wud fain hae your good word, an' no your evil tongue with them; and so come, good wife, tell us what ken ye—what's biding them?—come, what have they to do?

Meanwhile there are rumors a dejected Takuboku is not dead but now running a burusera (used panties) fetish boutique in Shibuya.

Under oath, at the Army-McCarthy hearings, he denied ever having said this. His denials were as meaningless as his avouchments, and reputable journalists heard him.

Rub-a-dub-dub, / The knight of the tub, Evangelical Thump-cushion hight, / Has too long had his way, / And, I'm sorry to say, / Put your orthodox phalanx to flight.