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His face was expressionless, but his eyes, black, watchful, were curiously alert. "What foh you come, Injun?" Feng demanded. "Wantee glub? Injun all time hiyu eat, all same hobo tlamp. S'pose you hungly me catch some muckamuck. Catch piecee blead, catch col' loast beef loast moosmoos!" "You catchum," Simon agreed. "Casey where him stop?" "Casey!" Feng's features expanded in a grin.
"Glub leady alle samee light now!" Hop Loy cried over his shoulder. "It better be!" ominously observed Pocus Pete, foreman of the Bar U ranch, one of the best-outfitted in the Rolling River section. "It better be! Those boys mean business, or I miss my guess," the foreman went on. "Hard work a-plenty, I reckon.
"Velly big Chinaman," whispered my cheerful friend; "first-chop man high classee no can washee no can eat no dlinke, no catchee him own glub allee same nothee man China boy must catchee glub for him, allee time! Oh, him first-chop man you bettee!" I had heard of this singular custom of indicating caste before, and was amazed and disgusted, but I was not prepared for what followed.
The dead man was Charles Glub, "one of our Quarter Masters, a very tall man, and a right good mariner, taken away to the great grief of Captain and company" a sufficiently beautiful epitaph for any man.
Here and there men were running about, some carrying saddies, others laden down with blankets, and some hopping around and firing off their revolvers in sheer good feeling. From a little cabin a Chinese in the regulation blouse, with his queue tightly coiled about his head, came to the door. "Wood-e!-Wood-e?" he called. "Me no glet glub me no got wood-e!"
We stayed there all day, watering and wooding, and providing things necessary, by giving content and satisfaction of the Indians. The sickness which had begun to kindle among us, two or three days before, did this day shew itself, in CHARLES GLUB, one of our Quarter-Masters, a very tall man, and a right good mariner; taken away, to the great grief both of Captain and company.
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