Taro called very softly, "Take, Take, wake up!" But Take slept
so soundly she did not hear him.

Father and Mother and the Baby were all asleep in the next room.
He did not want to wake them, because it was still so early in
the morning. So he crept softly along the floor to Take's bed,
and whispered in her ear, "Wake up, wake up!" But she didn't
wake up. Then Taro took a jay's feather which he had found in
the garden the day before, and tickled Take's nose!

First she rubbed her nose. Then she sneezed. Then she opened her
eyes and looked at Taro.

"Sh-sh," whispered Taro.

"But I haven't said a single word!" Take whispered back.

"You sneezed, though," said Taro. "That's just as bad. It will
wake up our honorable parents just the same."

"Well, you shouldn't tickle my poor little nose, then," said
Take.

"Your honorable nose was tickled so that you would wake up and
hear the birds sing," said Taro. "It is much nicer than
sleeping! Besides, do you remember what is going to happen to-
day? We are going to take Bot'Chan to the Temple!"

A temple is something like a church, only they do not do the
same things in temples that we do in our churches.