Epistolary fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Japanese -- United States -- Fiction
“A Samurai ain’t afraid of nothing, not even Fat,” I snuggest.
“You have went strickly against my orders,” she guggle. “It were a
delicious meal. Yet I must punish you for your impertinence. How much
wages I owe you?”
“$5,” I acknowledge.
“Here are $15,” she explode. “$5 for your disobedience & $10 for your
talents. Henceforward you are fired.”
“I was never more affectionately discharged in all my experience,” I
absolve while putting on hat & coat. “While I am vacant from this job
would you please hire my Cousin Nogi, who is also intelligent?”
“If he are a good cook, send him around,” she greet while I depart
feeling like my brain was on backwards.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
_Hashimura Togo_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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