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"You mean business?" "Yeh; binniziz. "Tay ole about his binniziz. Tay how stea' watch from 'Me'ican missiolary man. Tay how " "How did he steal the watch from the American missionary?" "We', somma lika dis: Chan Tow was vay stlong man, but vay litty meat on his boles. One day shee missiolary man come 'long load. Hedda watch-chain hang out.
"I remember that Ho Sen, my Chinese servant boy, used to say when the baby howled 'Nice stlong lung; he'll glow nice, big man! And by Jingo! How that little chap did grow! Those were days crowded with happiness and before we knew it we'd been in Tung-sha more than a year. The mine was beginning to require additional machinery and everything looked good for the future.
Ah Loy put the fiery spirit to his lips, and began to drink in slow sips, as a connoisseur sips port wine. "Good heavens," said Carew, "it'll burn the teeth out of his head." The Chinee sipped away, pausing to let the delicate fluid roll well into the tender part of his mouth and throat. "Welly stlong!" he said at last; but he finished the lot.
It was the one thing which held interest for Bern's Spence now. Li Ho stepped gingerly to the edge of the rounded rock. In the clear light, Spence could see how the moss had been scraped from the margin. "Him down there," said Li Ho. "Moon-devil push 'um. Plenty stlong devil!" Li Ho shrugged. Spence's clenched hands relaxed. "Dead?" he asked dully. "Heap much dead," said Li Ho.
I took out the stopper and smelt it. "Smell velly good; all nicee." "Why, it smells of peppermint drops," I said carelessly. "Yes, smell beautiful, all peppimint. Velly gleat stlong. Muchee lit' dlop, so."
"You helpee me cally?" he said. For answer I took hold of one end of the case, and we bore it right up, through the thick sand, close under the cliff, where we placed it behind a big stone. "You gottee big stlong knife?" cried Ching. I took out a big-bladed knife, opened it, and found no difficulty in thrusting it through the soft tin and cutting a long gash.
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