THE BOOK OF
NIPS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE WIND
The barbarians show up
Chapter 12
As it happened,
2The Nips eventually had to deal with a whole bunch of barbarians,
3Who came from eEurope and America,
4The way they always seem to,
5And started trying to tell the Nips how to run things in Japan.
6fFor example, there was a Yank named Commodore Perry who made the Nips open up their ports to the barbarians,
7gSo that the barbarians could sell a whole bunch of paper umbrellas and samurai swords and kimonos and things back home.
8hUnfortunately, the Nips hadn’t quite got around to inventing some of the weapons the barbarians had,
9iLike artillery,
10jAnd had to make a note to themselves to invent better weapons later on,
11Which they did.
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