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After standing for a few seconds with his eyes shut and his head thrown back, so that his pig-tail nearly touched the ground, the scene appeared to return to his memory. "Eyah!" he chuckled, and turned to go, laughing as he went. "Don't forget the letters. Uppee sleevee, old Tea-tray!" roared Dennis. Ah-Fo flirted them out once more. "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed he, and went finally away.
Fe-fo-fum, or whatever it is that they call ye!" Ah-Fo looked up with a smile of delighted recognition, which, as Dennis gave a few preliminary stamps, and began to whistle and shuffle, expanded into such hearty laughter, that he was obliged to sit down to it by the roadside. "Look here, Dennis," said our host; "we shall have a crowd collecting if you go on with this tomfoolery. Send him off."
Allee same as pin, barring that a pin's got a head with no eye in it, and a needle's got an eye with no head to it." "You no talkee, you lookee," pleaded Ah-Fo. "One for you, Dennis," laughed the engineer. We looked, and Ah-Fo put the needle into his mouth and swallowed it.
"Ah-Fo," was the reply, and the Chinaman bowed low. "You can understand English, if you can't speak it, eh?" The Chinaman smiled.
And whilst we were clapping and cheering him, both needles and thread disappeared as before. Ah-Fo was evidently pleased by our approval, and by the shower of coins with which our host rewarded his performance, but when he had disposed of them in his own mysterious fashion, some source of discontent seemed yet to remain. He looked sadly at Dennis and said, "Ah-Fo like to do so, allee same as you."
But this time Ah-Fo produced a small ball of thread, and it followed the needles, after which he doubled himself up in uneasy contortions, which sent us into fits of laughter. Then he put his fingers into his mouth we watched closely and slowly, yard after yard, he drew forth the unwound thread, and all the twelve needles were upon it.
Ah-Fo had stood irresolute for a minute or two, then he appeared to make up his mind, and coming close under the balcony he smiled at Dennis and said, "You lookee here." Then feeling rapidly in the inner part of his dress he brought out a common needle, which he held up to us, then pricked his finger to show that it was sharp, and held it up again, crying, "You see?" "I see," said Dennis. "Needle.
"All right, old fellow. Beg your pardon. Good-bye, Te-to-tum." It was not a respectful farewell, but there is a freemasonry of friendliness apart from words. Dennis had a kindly heart toward his fellow-creatures everywhere, and I never knew his fellow-creatures fail to find it out. "Good-bye," said Ah-Fo, lingeringly. "Good-bye again.
And O'Brien, giving one vicious dust with his coat-sleeve of the door-post, which Ah-Fo had contaminated by a passing touch, followed the "heathen thief" to see him safe off the premises. "That's a strange race, now " began Alister, but I ran to the window, for Dennis was on the balcony watching for the Chinaman, and remembering the scene on the stelling, I anticipated fun. "Hi, there!
This time Ah-Fo looked genuinely bewildered, but he gazed at Dennis as if he would have given anything to understand him. "Uppee sleevee you know?" said Dennis, illustrating his meaning by signs. A grin of intelligence spread from ear to ear on Ah-Fo's countenance.
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