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"Mista Sam Kow say: 'This man go night-time in Chestnut Stleet; pickee out letta undah sidewalk, stickee money-bag undah sidewalk, cly, shivah, makee allee same like sick fella. Walkee all lound town allee night. Allee same like Chlistian dlunk man. No sleepee.
"One time I fight plenty much in San Flancisco in Washington stleet. Fight um See Yups." Another half-hour passed. At times when they halted they began to hear the faint murmur of the creek, just beyond which was the broken and crumbling shanty, relic of an old Portuguese whaling-camp, where the beach-combers were camped.
"Nex' stleet," said Ching; and after a few minutes he turned into a showy-looking eating-house, where his blue silk gown and long nails seemed to command the most profound respect from the attendants; and where, after laying down the law very stringently to Ching, that we were to have neither dog, cat, nor rat, we resigned ourselves to our fate, and ate birds'-nest soup, shark-fin, and a variety of what Barkins called messes, with midshipmen appetites.
"Allee light," cried the man, brightening up, for he had looked disappointed, and he held out both hands for the promised pay. "Oh, come, wait a bit," I said. "We want you to take us and show us the shops." "No, no. Shop no good. Bess shop fancee shop, Ching." "Oh yes; but we want to see the others too, and the streets." "Stleet allee full dust allee full mud. No good."