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The Chinee cooks don't count, for sure the poor heathens would only get excited and turrn somebody loose if we asked them to do anything desperate. And, as ye know, wan good Irishman and bad luck to the man that says I am not that can keep a hundhred Germans from comin' up out av that ingine room. Go to yer bed, Michael, an' lie down until I call ye."
We replied to this Chinesing Chinee that it was all very true, but that the damage had been inconsiderable, that if the defrauder had not been in the train he could not have saved it at the risk of his life, and at the same time he could not have saved the lives of the passengers. Well, would you believe it?
It was not more than eight inches in length and looked to be a very common-looking thing. But while the miners were wondering what the "heathen Chinee" was up to, Hop suddenly gave the piece of bamboo a twist, and the next minute a small, bright-colored parasol was in his hand. This was raised in a jiffy, and then he went parading around the room with it over his head.
"I'll give it to youse dead straight," said he, at last; "I don't know whether the mug was white or black. Say, he might have been a Chinee." "I believe that fellow is faking," said the sergeant to Nick, as Harrigan left the room. "No; he's straight enough, I guess," said Nick. "He's not the sort of man who would have been let into a game of this kind."
"Pay up the dad's gamblin' debts, an' bid this Knight o 'the Green Cloth a swate an' long fare-ye-well. Then go an' be happy, me child." The Dragon and the Tomahawk "Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain." Bret Harte.
'Cambridge four wickets down for 115, but and the young man stared, 'it must be, it is Pussy Merton! 'And you, Clancy Minor, why are you not converting the Heathen Chinee? You deserve a death of torture. 'Goodness! How do you know that? asked Clancy. 'I know many things, answered Merton. 'I am not sure which of you is Mr. Bathe. Clancy presented Mr.
I must say my first impression of the heathen Chinee at Bhamo was tremendously in his favour; in many ways even the coolies, or Chinese porters, struck me favourably, by their simple kit, blue tunic and shorts, and their sturdy limbs and absence of any roughness of manner. A few yards along the road brought us to the Joss House.
His presence on board put into Captain Turcott's head an idea which his mate probably was the only one to understand thoroughly. "He will bother us a bit this confounded Chinee! after all, so much the worse for him." "What ever made him stow himself away on board the Dream?" answered the mate. "To get to Shanghai!" replied Captain Turcott. "Bless John and all John's sons too!"
"Over at Ah Quong's, the Chinee store on the edge of town." The boy ran off. Old Jim Hutch rose impressively to his feet. "Friends, the man ye hae laughed at all day is dead. The man ye hae always laughed at and yet, WHO was it that lent ye gold when ye had none? Yea, the gold ye thought it not worth ye'r while to return.
He was carried up the steps, and the head of the Large Family went with him, looking very anxious. Shortly afterward a doctor's carriage arrived, and the doctor went in plainly to take care of him. "There is such a yellow gentleman next door, Sara," Lottie whispered at the French class afterward. "Do you think he is a Chinee? The geography says the Chinee men are yellow."
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