"The reason for doing so was to explain later to a landlord (or landlady) that I went out to wash my fundoshi loincloth at a brook near the school," he wrote.
「何のためだと云ふと、其塾の傍に一筋の小川が流れて居る、其小川へ洗濯に出ましたと斯（か）う答へるんです。