- Ho-yun’s Threat
- 1 One day in 1905, on the way to Gohng-ju with Ho-yun on His back, Sahng-jeh-nim asked,
- 2 “Do you have to pee?”
“I am going to pee here,” Ho-yun said. “I don’t want to get down.”
- 3 “In that case,” said Sahng-jeh-nim, “what am I going to do when I get wet?”
- 4 “No, I’ll just pee here,” Ho-yun said in a sweet voice and stuck to His back more tightly.
- 5 Sahng-jeh-nim began laughing. “Oh no! A leech is stuck to My back. If you do so, I will throw you into the water.”
- 6 “Just see if I let go, even if You try to throw me into the water.”
- 7 “You little thing,” Sahng-jeh-nim said, and laughed.
- 8 On the way, they visited an inn to have a meal. Sahng-jeh-nim mixed the rice and side dishes together and tried to feed it to Ho-yun,
- 9 but she refused, saying, “I won’t eat it.”
“Why won’t you eat it?”
- 10 “If You keep doing this when I get bigger, I will go around saying bad things about You.”
- 11 At this, Sahng-jeh-nim clapped His hands and laughed so heartily that the inn shook. Startled guests ran out of their rooms.
- (JSD Dojeon 5,83)
