The Seven Poor Travellers（七个可怜的旅行者） 立即阅读
Strictly speaking, there were only six Poor Travellers; but, being a Traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor as I hope to be, I brought the number up to seven. This word of explanation is due at once, for what says the inscription over the quaint old door? RICHARD WATTS, Esq. by his Will, dated 22 Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Fourpence each. It was in the ancient little city of Rochester in Kent, of all the good days in the year upon a Christmas-eve, that I stood reading this inscription over the quaint old door in question.
肥後の細川家の家中に、田岡甚太夫と云う侍がいた。これは以前日向の伊藤家の浪人であったが、当時細川家の番頭に陞っていた内藤三左衛門の推薦で、新知百五十石に召し出されたのであった。ところが寛文七年の春、家中の武芸の仕合があった時、彼は表芸の槍術で、相手になった侍を六人まで突き倒した。その仕合には、越中守綱利自身も、老職一同と共に臨んでいたが、余り甚太夫の槍が見事なので、さらに剣術の仕合をも所望した。
