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Two piecee priest, all dressum white savvy? You mus' buyum coffin yo'self. Velly fine coffin, heap much silver, an' four-piecee horse. You catchum fireclacker one, five, seven hundled fireclacker, makeum big noise; an' loast pig, an' plenty lice an' China blandy. Heap fine funeral, costum fifteen hundled dollah. I be bury all same Mandarin all same Little Pete. You plomise, sure?"
"Me bettee you hundled dollee you gottee um jack of hearts in you bootleg, so be!" "What!" cried Roche, as he looked down at his feet. "Do you mean that, you heathen?" "Me allee samee meanee," was the reply. "Me wantee givee you chancee to gittee square, so be." The villain had a hundred dollars out in a hurry. "There you are!" he exclaimed. "Cover that!"
At last the transfer was effected and the receptacle securely stoppered and sealed. "In formeryore-time," Hoku explained to me, "old pliests sucked ghost with mouth and spit him to inside of vase with acculacy. Modern-time method more better for stomach and epiglottis." "How long will this ghost keep?" I inquired. "Oh, about four, five hundled years, maybe," was his reply.
"Of course we savvy, Charlie," said Moran. "You weren't afraid when it came to fighting." "I die pletty soon," said Charlie calmly. "You say you gib me fifteen hundled dollah?" "Yes, yes; that was our promise. What do you want done with it, Charlie?" "I want plenty fine funeral in Chinatown in San Francisco. Oh, heap fine! You buy um first-chop coffin savvy? Silver heap much costum big money.
"Him tloo hundled pesos," stated the Chinaman gravely. A peso is the Spanish name for a Mexican dollar, worth about forty-seven cents; but two pesos and an American dollar are reckoned as of the same value in Manila. "A hundred dollars gold! Why, that's the same price you asked me before," cried Hal in good-natured protest. "Yep, allee same; him plenty cheap."
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