Excerpt from Seed of the Sun Now this is but a passing snapshot Of the town whose name, defying race and color, remains so stubbornly Anglo Saxon. Such motorists as go bowling through this corner of Little Japan might wonder at the word Bly so legibly painted on the Southern Pacific station. Was there ever a Mr. Bly? On the afternoon when paper demons flew over the village of Bly, and Mrs. Awaga stared unfriendly at the pagan emblem across from her husband's Church, three amiable Americans sat in a pompous New York drawing-room and struggled to talk away the effects Of an Old-fashioned Sun day dinner. It was one Of those houses which we associate with the name of England's most maligned Of queens Victoria. It had been built in the day when downtown was uptown and when fashionable New Yorkers seemed to have borrowed the architectural tastes of Mr. P. T. Barnum, then doing business in his justly famous museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.