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No explanation was forthcoming, and Charlie gave them supper in preoccupied silence. As they were eating the abalones, which Moran had fried in batter, Charlie said: "Shark all gone! No more catch um him all gone." "Gone why?" "No savvy," said Charlie. "No likee, no likee. China boy tink um heap funny, too much heap funny." It was true.
A good and faithful servant he proved during three years. Then he ran away at the time of the anti-Chinese riots, despite our assurance that we wished to keep him and protect him. "Me no likee Coon Dogs," said he, with a shiver.
"'As a relaxiation, Charles, says I. 'Poker is a business for gentlemen of means gottee nomonee! "'Me stakee you, says he. 'Likee poker. "So Jim and some of the other boys come over, and Charlie and me begun to draw cards. After we dubbed through a few deals, gettin' on to each other's play, I see Charlie stow away a pair of aces.
"Me no likee," said Li Ho. "You don't have to," said I. Li Ho explained that it was not the contemplated marriage which received his disapproval but the circumstances surrounding it. "Me muchy glad Missy get mallied," said he. "Ladies so do, velly nice! When you depart to go?" "Tomorrow," I said. Since we had given up the elopement it seemed more dignified to wait and depart by daylight.
"I'm a pretty looking old rhinoceros to be gettin' stuck on a kid, ain't I, 'Tonia?" said he. "Not verree good thing," agreed Antonia, sagely, "for too much old man to likee muchacha ." "You bet it ain't," said Dry Valley, grimly. "It's dum foolishness; and, besides, it hurts."
I can see, right now, that long knife of yours slip under my arm, and catch the big fellow in the stomach. He just coughed once, and crumpled up at my feet. In the nick of time, too, Jim, and I let the next one have it. The rest of them took to their heels, and you with your long pigsticker after them. No likee!
I saw her pass." "Miss Farr!" The professor's ungallant horror was all too patent. He turned haunted eyes toward the second nail keg, now plainly visible and unoccupied. "Missy in boat. She waitee. No likee!" said the Chinaman, speaking for the first time. "But," began the professor, and then, seeing the appreciative grin upon Mr.
"Oh deah me!" said Ching in his most squeaky tones, "I velly hungly. You like nicee bleakfast, Mis' Hellick?" "Don't speak to me as if I were a baby, Ching," I cried angrily. "No; speak like to offlicer, Mr Hellick. You likee bleakfast something good eat?"
His queue had become unbound for half its length, and he plaited it anew, winking his eyes thoughtfully. "Well, what do you say?" said Moran. "I lose face," answered Hoang at length, calmly. "You lose face? What do you mean?" "I lose face," he insisted; then added: "I heap 'shamed. You fightee my China boy, you catchee me. My boy no mo' hab me fo' boss savvy? I go back, him no likee me.
It was not a banjo, for it was too long; and it was not a guitar, for it was too thin, and had not enough strings; but it was something of the kind, and evidently kept there for the use of musically-disposed visitors. "You likee music?" said Ching.
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