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Updated: May 20, 2025
No, the rain wouldn't have spoiled it anyhow, Alice; anglers LIKEe rain. The 'Rose and Crown' dinner was half of it wasted because the anglers were so furious that a lot of them took the next train to town. And this is the worst of all a barge, that was on the mud in the pen below, was lifted and jammed across the river and the water tilted her over, and her cargo is on the river bottom.
"Me likee lilly gal, she likee me," he explained with his bland vacuous smile and his little beady eyes twinkling. "Me wifoo get chop chop. Two men not stop one placee no go ship and 'top shore too." "You rascal!" shouted "Old Jock" in a rage, "you served me just the same trick the voyage before last. You'd better come with us now, for I'm hanged if I give you the chance again."
"I'm as well as I ever was in all my life. Look at me. Now, tell me, do l look likee a sick lady?" He scrutinised her face distressfully. "Now, don't I look the picture of health?" she challenged. "In a way you do," he began, "and then again " Hilma beat a tattoo with her heels upon the floor, shutting her fists, the thumbs tucked inside. She closed her eyes, shaking her head energetically.
Then, growing serious directly, he looked from one to the other. "You likee dlink?" "No, no, not yet," cried Barkins. "No likee dlink?" said the Chinaman wonderingly; and then in a voice full of reproof, "Sailor boy likee dlink." "Oh yes, by and by," cried Smith. "Ah, you wantee buy fan, shawl, ivoly? Fancee shop." "No, no, we don't want to buy anything now," cried Barkins. "We'll pay you "
"No, no," said Sin Sin Wa. "He is a brave man; he comes alone." He paused, and then suddenly resumed in pidgin English: "You likee killa him, eh?" Perhaps unconscious that she did so, Mrs. Sin replied also in English: "No, I am mad. Let me think, old fool!" She dropped the stiletto and raised her hand dazedly to her brow. "You gotchee tired of knifee chop, eh?" murmured Sin Sin Wa. Mrs.
"You likee Ching show?" "Yes, of course. Prize-money, and you'd share." "Ching likee plize-money. You bling ship along, and Ching show." Ching's announcement cleared up what had been somewhat of a mystery.
His own eyes flashed. "Tell her to keep out of the kitchen." Toy shook his head. "I no likee her; I no stay." "Won't you stay if I ask you as a favor?" The Chinaman reiterated in his stubborn monotone: "She kick on my glub; I no likee her; I no stay." "You're going to put me in an awful hole, Toy, if you go." "She want my job, I think. All light I no care." Bruce knew him too well to argue.
Mebbeso you likee some fried ham and eggs?" said Song, shaking hands with himself and bowing low. "Ham and eggs! No! Positively, no! I'll be turning into a ham and egg if I get any more of it. That's all the cook at the ranch knows how to do. Anything else?" "Yes, missee. Plenty paltlidge, what Misto Ted shootee lesterday. I cookee you some plenty quick."
"Funny, Chung?" queried Dawson, observing for the first time that the Chinaman's queue stood up as straight as a garden stake, and almost scraped the ceiling as its owner moved about. "Funny?" "Yeppee, flunny," returned Chung, with a shiver. "Me no likee. Me flightened." "Oh, come!" said Dawson, with an affected lightness. "What are you afraid of?" "Slumting," said Chung. "Do' know what.
But there was no mob of idlers there now, and we stepped ashore, leaving the good-natured-looking crew smiling at us, and giving the shops many a longing look, as they pushed off and began to row back at once. "Plenty time," said Ching. "You likee fust go lestaulant eatee, dlinkee, spend plize-money?" "Can't spend what we haven't yet got, Ching," said Barkins. "What do you say, lads?
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