Episode 11: A raccoon dog's blessing

　Once upon a time, Kitsuneyama in Futatsubashimura was a place where the trees were thicker in the daytime, and various animals lived.
　One of them, Gonbei Danuki, who is not good at relaxing and turning, is always out of his friends, and Yajiemon, a peasant who plays the village role of Murayaku. When I entered the kitchen, I was getting a spill of food. This Gonbei raccoon always comes to Yajiemon's house at night.
"Yajiemon, Yajiemon!"
And knocked the shutter, imitating the voice of Genbei of village headman.
Yajiemon thinks that he is really a master, and when he opens the door in a hurry and looks outside, nobody can see it. I thought it was because of my mind, and I went to bed again
"Mr. Yajiemon, Mr. Yajiemon."
I hear the sound of hitting the shutter more and more. He hurriedly opened the door and looked out, and saw the raccoon's raccoon, who ran away. As I repeated this, one day Yajiemon and Gonbei raccoon became friends.
　One year later, a fire broke up from behind Yajiemon. Gonbei Tangeron, who found this, wiped a thicker tail than ever before, and shouted loudly
"Yajiemon, Yajiemon!"
I hit the shutter of Yajiemon's house.
　I was surprised at the unusual appearance of Gonbei raccoon dog and jumped out and it was a fire. Mr. Yajiemon, who shouted out the fire in the neighborhood and extinguished it, became better friends than before thanks to Gonbei raccoon that he did not burn important documents that he had kept his house safely .
Mr. Yajiemon also grew older one day and suddenly went on a severely sickbed.
　One day, his son, Taro Hiro, was called to his bedside.
"Gonbei Tanuki, who hits the shutters of his house every night, is a friend of mine. It's a privilege to protect the house from the fire, so please keep it forever. "
I asked him to breathe. The owner called by Gonbei Tanuki changed from Yajiemon to Kotaro.
　One autumn evening, Gonbei Tanuki found that a fire was rising in the village. I forgot to turn it off and ran to inform Kotaro's house, but when I hit it, the house was completely wrapped in fire.
Gonbei Tanuki, who had moved his mind, jumped into the fire and held Yajiemon's spirit tablet firmly in his large stomach, fell down and breathed. Since then, this healthy Gonbei raccoon dog has been handed down as a story of the villagers, saying, "Let's give back to animals."

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