With him a book is a book, pamphlet a pamphlet, a manuscript a manuscript, etc., etc. If I had given it to any of you gentlemen, you would have put it into your pockets, and some days after you would have accidentally have found something there, all in atoms, about which you knew nothing.
本文（ほんもん）のみにては尽さゞるが故に頭書（かしらがき）を加えて、凡（およ）そ各地の風俗歴史（ふうぞくれきし）等の荒増（あらま）しを記したれども、文章（ぶんしよう）は極（きわ）めて通俗（つうぞく）を主として苟（いやしく）も難字（なんじ）を用いず、紛（まぎ）れもなき寺小屋流（てらこやりゆう）の体裁（ていさい）なりと信ず。