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To do Rivers justice, he did not recognise his former servant, nor did he have more than three copper cents in his possession, although that fact was known to him when he stepped into the rickshaw and directed the coolie to French Town, extreme limits. Kwong indignantly rejected the copper cents, and Rivers flung them into the dust and turned away.
"An you know what I'm gwine do with my other nickel every day? I'm gwine give it to the po' people of Indy an' China you preaches about." And thus she would prattle too young to know that, through the cupidity of white men, in this the land of freedom and progress she this blue-eyed, white-skinned child of the Saxon race, was making the same wages as the Indian sepoy and the Chinese coolie.
I felt so faint with the unusual pressure on my lungs that, despite all the efforts to resist it, I also collapsed on the snow. The coolie and I, shivering pitifully, shared the same blanket in order to keep warm. Both of us were seized with irresistible sleepiness. I fought hard against it, for I well knew that if my eyelids once closed they would almost certainly remain so forever.
Kelung was a seaport city on the northern coast, straight east across the island from Tamsui. A coolie to carry food and clothing was hired, and early in the morning, while the stars were still shining, they passed through the sleeping town and out on the little paths between the rice-fields. Though it was yet scarcely daylight, the farmers were already in their fields.
He had been acquitted of the murder, he said, 'and though I killed the man, it was according to the custom of my country he gave me an insult which could only be wiped out in blood! The guard dared not touch him, and he went to the wazir, demanded a coolie, and got one! Our party left Leh early on a glorious morning, travelling light, Mr. Redslob, a very learned Lhassa monk, named Gergan, Mr.
What reason is there in this? The coolie folded his naked arms, and dug in the dust with an unconcerned toe. 'I, what can I do? he said, 'It is the order of the memsahib. Ram Singh grunted and said no more. A rickshaw was coming down from the Mall, and the memsahib was in it. Ten minutes later the ponies stood in their traces under the iron bar, and the lady sat in the tonga behind Ram Singh.
He communicated it to others, and in twenty-four hours the whole settlement knew that See Yup's coolie company were taking out an average of four hundred dollars per week from the refuse and tailings of the old abandoned Palmetto claim! The astonishment of the settlement was profound.
His inspection completed, the General expressed his thanks, and the party rode away, never to be heard of again, at least not in that capacity. Shortly afterwards, a notorious spy was seen working as a coolie in the Egyptian Labour Corps. Perhaps he was the General. The monotony of trench life was varied by occasional raids into the enemy trenches.
Ivry coolie on the section takes a ticket or he gives 'em the go wanst a month on pay-day. Ivry coolie that wins ut gives ut back to him, for 'tis too big to carry away, an' he'd sack the man that thried to sell ut.
Things are coming to a pretty pass when boys like you begin teaching me, who've been nigh forty year in the wild-beast trade! What next?" "Glyn Severn's right," said Singh sternly. "Here's another of them!" cried the man, looking round from face to face. "Quite right," continued Singh. "Why, the poorest coolie in my father's dominions would manage one of the noble beasts far better."
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