>>13848744
>Ono, an inhabitant of Mino, spent the seasons longing for his ideal of female beauty.
>He met her one evening on a vast moor and married her.
>Simultaneously with the birth of their son, Ono's dog was delivered of a pup which as it grew up became more and more hostile to the lady of the moors.
>She begged her husband to kill it, but he refused.
>At last one day the dog attacked her so furiously that she lost courage, resumed vulpine shape, leaped over a fence and fled.
>"You may be a fox," Ono called after her, "but you are the mother of my son and I love you. Come back when you please; you will always be welcome."
>So every evening she stole back and slept in his arms.