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Updated: June 10, 2025
"I should think Wang would like her, to put her in his Joss house," he said disrespectfully. "What'll she ever do, before two weeks are up? She'll be a case for the doctor, sure enough." "We ought to have brought Dr. Hornblower along, to amuse her," suggested Grant. "Come, I'm tired of this; let's have a game of 'I spy. This moonlight would be fine for it. Come on, Ned!"
Then, returning to the spot where Mrs. Sin lay, he coolly detached a leather wallet which she wore beneath her dress fastened to a girdle. Next he removed her rings, her bangles and other ornaments. He secreted all in the interior of the joss his treasure-chest.
Where is your house? Have you come far? Kim asked. 'I came by Kulu from beyond the Kailas but what know you? From the Hills where' he sighed 'the air and water are fresh and cool. 'Aha! Fook Shing had once chased him out of his shop for spitting at the joss above the boots. 'Aye, child a hillman from hills thou'lt never see. 'A guru from Tibet, said Kim. 'I have not seen such a man.
Ah!" She choked in her utterance, and turning to the gilded joss which contained the dead Chinaman she shook her clenched hands at it, and the expression on her face I can never forget. Then: "As I shriek curses at him, crash goes the window and I see her husband spring into the room!
At the very hour that Kerry was hastening to Prince's Gate, Sin Sin Wa sat before the stove in the drug cache, the green-eyed joss upon his knee. With a fragment of chamois leather he lovingly polished the leering idol, crooning softly to himself and smiling his mirthless smile.
Many of these poor people died during the passage; the bodies were placed in boxes to be carried to their native land. A large per cent. of the whole number seemed to be going home to die, so emaciated and feeble were they. There was fitted up in one of the bunks in the hold of the vessel a Joss house.
There were two theatres in the quarter, a number of rich joss houses, three newspapers and a Chinese telephone exchange. There is a race feeling against the Chinese among the working people of San Francisco, and no white man, except the very lowest outcasts, lived in the quarter.
That Harley also had seen the bloodstains I was well aware, and I did not doubt that furthermore he had noted the fact that the only mat which the room boasted had been placed before the joss doubtless to hide other stains upon the boards. As we stood so I presently became aware of a current of air passing across the room in the direction of the open door.
You then cast your eyes on the gilded spears, and standards and battle-axes standing in the corners of the Temple, and as you look up you almost covet the great Chinese lanterns suspended from the ceiling. Your eyes are finally directed to the altar, near which, and on it, are flowers artificial and natural. At the rear in a kind of a niche in the Joss or god.
'Petee comee! "'On what? says I, ashamed to show surprise to a yaller Chinaman. "'Joss man fetchee! says he. "'Certainly! says I. 'That's what he ought to do; don't get excited. I did my wonderin' about the joss man in private. 'Sit down, Charlie. "So Charlie, he sot down and watched me rifflin' the cards. "'Playee poker? says he.
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