Dog Jin Meiling expresses why her mother-in-law is crying.

Ah hei from the hotel is dead.

Jin Meiling's children's poem "Dog": On the day when my Dahlia bloomed, Ahei in the restaurant died. My mother-in-law, who had been angry with us when we were playing in front of the restaurant, began to sob. That day, I told this funny story at school, but it was sad when I told it.

Mei Ling (1903- 1930), whose real name is Zhao, was a Japanese nursery rhyme poet who was active in the 1920s and was born in Qixian Village, Otsu County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.