melikan

Updated: May 7, 2025

By a delicate flattery, when they did speak of him it was in what they considered to be his own language. "Boston boy, plenty like catchee HIM," Jim would say, pointing to a distant swan. Or Li Tee, hunting a striped water snake from the reeds, would utter stolidly, "Melikan boy no likee snake." Yet the next two days brought some trouble and physical discomfort to them.

Bret Harte - Under the Redwoods