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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Me go uppee lere, and me allee samee lookee down on um other side, so be." "Great Scott!" cried Jim Dart. "Who would have thought of doing that? Hop, you are a dandy!" "Me velly muchee smartee Chinee, so be," was the reply. "Where Misler Charlie? Me takee and showee where Misler Wild is velly muchee quicken, so be."
"We thought it was German," rejoined Levy, with dexterity. "It might 'ave been 'Industani or 'Eathen Chinee for all I know! But there was no error about the revolver. I can see it covering me, and his shooting eye looking along the barrel into mine as plainly as I'm looking into yours now, Mr. Raffles." Raffles laughed outright. "I hope I'm a pleasanter spectacle, Mr. Levy?
At the same moment a hand gripped him by the neck, and a girl, somewhere on deck, screamed. Scrymgeour's captor, who was no other than the owner of the Heathen Chinee, dragged him fiercely into the house-boat and stormed at him for five minutes.
It particularly annoyed him that Annie showed his small enemy so much favor, and he would sometimes think angrily, when irritated by some trick of the Chinee Kid, that if she had more regard for his feelings she would not join in the general encouragement that was given to the heathen brat in being a public nuisance.
Just then Cap Roche happened to set eyes on Hop Wah, who was sitting at a table, showing half a dozen miners some tricks with a pack of cards. "Hello! You've got a heathen here, eh?" he exclaimed. "When did he strike here!" "Late this afternoon, Cap," answered Hoker. "He's a great Chinee, too. He's a sleight-of-hand feller, an' he kin handle dice an' cards any way he wants ter.
Opinion was forming throughout the country, aided by Bret Harte's famous lines: Which I wish to remark And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar Which the same I would rise to explain. Action by Congress was hindered by the Burlingame treaty of 1868 with China, which covered the subject of immigration in unmistakable language.
But the "Melica Man" has allowed himself to be outwitted by the "Heathen Chinee," who has secured property rights which cannot be overcome without a measure of confiscation, which would appear to be scarcely constitutional. The area is probably one of the most densely populated in the world.
And then I got thinking as I must have done very wrong in killing that Chinee, to feel as bad as I did. And I got arguing it over first one way and then the other for a minute or two, and the next thing I remember is it being tumble-up time, and till you spoke to me about it just now, I've never hardly thought about it since. It was doing my duty, sir, of course; now, warn't it?"
In ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the heathen Chinee at the top of his heathenish bent would have been no match for Mr. Henry M. Pitkin, who could have taken the shirt away from a Chinese river pirate.
Slowly, slowly, the limp wet figure ascended the shaft, while Hugh supported himself in the water, by gripping the logs at the side of the well, praying that the tackle would hold. The creaking of the windlass ceased, and the ascending body stopped evidently the Chinee was pausing to get his breath. "Go on!" screamed Hugh. "Keep at it, John! Don't let it beat you! Wind away!"
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