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Show 70 care - - tripping along distributing "r's" and "l's" without appropriateness or embarrassment, and as a matter of fact on discovering she was pregnant decided to call the baby "Bluce." "Bruce," said Yosh. "Br-r-r-" Mike agreed. "Bluce." "Bruce." "Bluce." Yosh opened his lips, so she could see what his tongue was doing. "Bruce." Carefully - - making her lips rigid in the effort - - shna tried again, and it came out: right: "Bruce." "See," he chortled, Hyou can." She gave a contemptuous look. "Of course," she said, "when I tly." The picnic had provided the Satterwhites their first prolonged exposure to the Detachments,and aroused their curiosity. What were they like, this oriental-occidental mixture that lived in the leafy lanes across the water? But the next encounter, as it turned out, was less pleasant. A day or two later some of the women mett at the station: Oji had no commissary, andjsince Americans were forbidden to buy on the Japanese market a train made the rounds from Kyoto once a week, circling through the isolated areas of the San'in-sen with an uninspiring load of edibles. Shopping on the train d e&e ,\ d & <n~6 s 5 added adventure to the wBniiimiiiinii l i v e s , for the selection was , and a week's supply had to be bought, thus the l a d i e s on the plaM?6rm were subject to more than the usual |