The merchant ran up Kiinokunizaka (X surround) by the darkness, he was scared and could not look back.
After a while, at last, he saw a lantern up ahead. It looked like the faint light of a firefly. It turned out to be
the lantern of a soba-selling stand.
The merchant threw himself down at the feet of the soba-seller out, "Ah! Ah!! Ah!!!"
"What happened?" said the soba-seller. "Did anybody hurt you?"
"No, nobody (Y hurt) me," said the merchant, (Z breathe ) heavily.
"Only scared you?" said the soba-seller calmly. "Robber?"
"Not robbers, not robbers," said the merchant. "I saw a woman by the moat. She showed me
tell you what she showed me!"
Ah! I cannot