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With one voice, the crew protested; ere Herrick knew what they were doing, the cook was aroused and came a willing volunteer; all hands clustered about their mate with expostulations and caresses; and he was bidden to lie down and take his customary rest without alarm. 'He tell you tlue, said Uncle Ned. 'You sleep. Evely man hae he do all light. Evely man he like you too much.
Jack scrambled out, but in trying to stand upright gave a sharp exclamation of pain. Percy crawled out more slowly; he tried to stand up, but could not. The Chinaman caught him up and threw him on his shoulder. "Come along quickee," he said to Jack; "if takee village, kill evely one." He set off at a run.
With one voice, the crew protested; ere Herrick knew what they were doing, the cook was aroused and came a willing volunteer; all hands clustered about their mate with expostulations and caresses; and he was bidden to lie down and take his customary rest without alarm. "He tell you tlue," said Uncle Ned. "You sleep. Evely man hea he do all light. Evely man he like you too much."
Ching wear silk evely day in Queen Victolia countly. You no tink captain take Ching?" "I'm sure he would not," I said. "Ching velly good interpleter; velly useful man." "Very; you've been a splendid fellow, Ching!" He smiled, and a fresh idea struck him. "You tink Queen Victolia like Ching teach lit' plince and plincess talk Chinese?" Again I was obliged to damp his aspirations, and he sighed.
The wicked young Lieutenants who served with him on the Plains used to say that his bark was worse than his bite, because no reasonable bite could ever be so bad as his bark. They even suggested calling him "Peruvian Bark," because a visit to his quarters was worse than a strong does of quinia. "Yeth, that'th good," said the lisping wit of the crowd. "Evely bite ith a bit, ain't it?
"No, not this time, Ching," cried Barkins, as we all laughed. "No go allee way London? Ching wantee go London, see Queen Victolia and Plince o' Wales." "Some other time, Ching," I said. "But I say, how about the fancy shop?" "Allee light. Ching go back." "And how are you after our fight to-day?" "Velly angly. Allee muchee quite 'shame of mandalin men. Big lascal, evely one."
Jiro screwed his queer little eyes upon the scrawling characters. The methods of writing in the Far East, being pictorial and inexact, require scrutiny of the context before a given sentence can be correctly interpreted. The little man made no trouble about it, however. "They are old chalacters," he said. "In Japan we joke a lot. Evely sign has sevelal meanings. This can be lead two ways.
Then he says: "Missa Gordon, I tay you how about Gaw convert China clilimal?" "How God converted a Chinese criminal?" "Yeh. I tay you. Dissa case somma lika dis: "One tem was China highrob. His nem was Chan Tow. Live by rob on pubnic highway evely one he can. Dissa highrob live in place call Kan Suh.
"Me gettee up fo' clock." "Did you go outside?" "Yes, me go out an' call cowbloy. Tell gettee up, P. D. Q. No gettee up, no bleakfast." "What did you see outside that you don't see every morning?" "Evely moling? No savvy." "Yesterday morning, day before that, day before that, all mornings." "Lesterday moling, evely moling?" "Oh, the deuce! You try him, Stella."
"I can't waste time talking." Smith whispered in his ear. "Yes; Mr. Smith will give you ten shillings for yourself if you hurry up." "Ch'hoy!" cried the other man. "Massa numpa one genelum; my go long too, Ching-Fu. No can catchee ten bob evely day." Ching-Fu suffered himself to be persuaded.
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