二本脚の馬〜『女教師ブラジル日記』より〜

（沼正三『ある夢想家の手帳から』第112章　植民地生まれの女性　所収）

 The girl has a proud look because she can be my teacher for this subject (human shoulders riding). Anyhow, she has been accustomed to ride from her childhood.
In a morning when we rode abreast she told me that her mount was an elder son of her nanny, and that from her earliest recollection it served her as her living wooden-horse, crawling around her room on its hands and knees with her on its back.

Two Legged Horses; from "A Diary of Governess in Brazil / Tagebuchblatter einer Gouvernante in Brasilien"