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I enquired. "Master no got," crooned Ah Tsong. He proceeded quietly to close the door again. "One moment," I said, "one moment. I wish, at any rate, to leave my card." Ah Tsong allowed the door to remain open, but: "No usee palaber so fashion," he said. "No feller comee here. Sabby?" "I savvy, right enough," said I, "but all the same you have got to take my card in to Mr. Camber."
"Me lun backee takee him safee," the younger of the Eastern adventurers went on, pointing to his father. "Then me makee walkee all alonk you, takee you back same placee you comee from. Little white devils waitee for you on ce load. You comee with? Not? Lillee girlee not cly. John givee her one piecee pletty-pletty. Come makee talkee with the House Lady."
"Comee here," he muttered, "my placee, all full up and no other placee b'long open." Bill Bean slapped him boisterously on the back. "Cut the palaver, Pidgin, and gimme a pipe. Piecee pipe, Pidgin!" He lurched across the floor, nearly falling over Stuart's legs, took up a mat and a cushion, lurched into the further corner and cast himself down.
For a time Davy had little to say about his hunting stories. I went back to No. 4, opened a blacksmith's shop, and in the fall married Ruth. We have lived here ever since, and have prospered. Much of my success is due to my wife's clear head and wonderful common sense. Folks regard Colonel Comee as a very shrewd and able business man. But my friends laugh, and say:
Ah-Fang-Fu reappeared behind him. "Catchee dlunk ev'ly time for comee here," he chattered. "'Taint 'umanly possible," declared the new arrival, staggering down the steps, "fer a 'ealthy sailorman to git drunk on coloured water just 'cause the publican calls it beer! I ain't drunk; I'm only miserable. Gimmee a pipe, Pidgin." Ah-Fang-Fu barred the door and ascended.
He rose, and I walked away with him. "Comee, the life is departed out of Israel. I have no further faith in this expedition. Our sun is set." We mourned his loss a long time, and our Province raised the money for a great monument, which was erected to him in Westminster Abbey, in memory of "the affection her officers and soldiers bore to his command."
With an exclamation of annoyance I shot back the bolts and threw open the door. A Chinaman stood outside upon the mat! "Me wishee see you," said the apparition, smiling blandly; "me comee in?"
On the 12th of August we were ordered to the front of the army, and the whole army marched to the fort at Crown Point, which had been blown up and destroyed by the enemy. I had not had a chance to talk to Captain Stark for a long time, and when we camped at Crown Point, I went over to his quarters. He took me into his hut and gave me a pipe. "I'm glad to see you, Comee.
Caleb Harrington falls by the meetinghouse step. A ball plows through the arm of John Comee, by Mr. Munroe's doorway. The Britishers are wild with excitement, and remorselessly take aim at the fleeing provincials. They have conquered and dispersed the rebels.
"Chin-chin, lilly pijjin," said my new friend, as he picked himself up from the deck and made his way back to his galley with the empty pannikin, whose contents I was glad to have swallowed before jumping out of the bunk, or else it would have been spilt in another fashion. "When you wanchee chow-chow you comee Ching Wang and he givee you first chop."
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