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Updated: June 1, 2025
It was left for the author of 'Yang Kee' to uncover the ludicrous character of militarism he has virtually committed your nation to it. He was a genius of marvelous insight. He saw clearly then what but few of your fellow citizens are even now aware of, that there is nothing more comical than a soldier.
Two emperors in particular, Kee and Chow, are held up as monsters of wickedness and examples of dissoluteness beyond comparison. The last, under the influence of a woman named Ta-Ke, became a frightful example of sensuality and cruelty.
"You are caught," cried the painter, gleefully, as the big automobile stopped at the gate. "I'll be damned if I am," retorted the novelist, with no profane intent but with meaning quite literal; and, seizing a book, he bolted through the kitchen nearly upsetting the startled Yee Kee.
They salute one another by laying the hand on the breast, making a bow, and inquiring, Kona lafia? ki ka ky kee Fo fo da rana: How do you do? I hope you are well. How have you passed the heat of the day? The last question corresponds in their climate to the circumstantiality, with what our country folks inquire about a good night's rest.
Taine at the door, explained, doubtfully, that the artist was at his work. He would go tell Mr. King that Mrs. Taine was here. "Never mind, Kee. I will tell him myself," she answered; and, before the Chinaman could protest, she was on her way to the studio. "Damn!" said the Celestial eloquently; and retired to his kitchen to ruminate upon the ways of "Mellican women." Mrs.
The acolyte was very agile in a short red cassock, below which his naked legs, and bare feet showed. The people responded often through the mass, rising, sitting down, and kneeling obediently. Baufré sat on a chair in the vestibule and added accounts. Ah Kee Au was the sole communicant at the rail.
Take the first two lines: "'Yankee Doodle came to town A-riding on a pony. "There is nothing difficult in that. You may say that the name is a strange one, and I admit that 'Doodle' is a curious surname, but 'Yang Kee' is a perfectly reasonable one from a Porsslanese point of view, and leads me to suppose that the wisdom contained in this poem came originally from our wise men.
It had been easy to secure permission from the neighboring rancher who leased the orchard from the Company. Conrad Lagrange, with the man and his big mountain wagon, had made a trip to town returning the next day with Yee Kee and the outfit. He brought, also, things from the studio; for the artist declared that he would no longer be without the materials of his art.
"We're not giving up this place, though," replied Aaron King. "Yee Kee stays to take care of things until our return." "Oh, I see. I generally go into the mountains, myself for a little hunt when the deer season opens. It may be that I will run across you somewhere. By the way you haven't met your musical neighbor yet, have you?"
But mibby if there was a noo licence or twa doon aboot the shore, there micht be mair traffik i' the herbir. The trustees wud mibby need to chairge shore dues on lads 'at was landit on the kee noo-an'-than. They cud be shedild as live stock, altho' they were half-deid wi' drink an' droonin' thegither. An' noo a wird or twa aboot "
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