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"Me go uppee lere, and me allee samee lookee down on um other side, so be." "Great Scott!" cried Jim Dart. "Who would have thought of doing that? Hop, you are a dandy!" "Me velly muchee smartee Chinee, so be," was the reply. "Where Misler Charlie? Me takee and showee where Misler Wild is velly muchee quicken, so be."
My companion, evidently thinking he had impressed me, grew more reckless as showman, and saying to me, "Now me showee you one funny thing heap makee you laugh," led me hurriedly across a little courtyard swarming with chickens and rabbits, when he stopped before another inclosure.
"Me showee velly nicee lillee tlick," spoke up Hop, nodding pleasantly. The Chinaman was quite sure that Young Wild West suspected that the man was not altogether right, for he was a keen observer and an attentive listener. That made him decide to make a victim of him, if he could. Hop had thought out a brand new trick with a deck of cards, and he was all fixed to work it on somebody.
"Now lun!" cried Ching. "I showee way." "No!" shouted Barkins. "Draw swords and retreat slowly." We whipped out our weapons and turned to face the enemy, knowing full well that they would sweep over us at the first rush, while a feeling of rage ran through me, as in my despairing fit I determined to make the big fellow opposite to me feel one dig of English steel before he cut me down.
Then he suddenly showed the jack of hearts again. "Do you want to try the other trick again?" the man front Silver Bend asked. "You no givee poor Chinee um showee to play um tlick, so be," answered Hop. "What kind of a show do you want? There you are with the jack of hearts in your hand. Now I'll bet you that you can't get it into my bootleg again!"
"Ching thinks the boats could go up the creek, sir, and that the pirates go that way." "Try, then; go first, Mr Grey," cried the first lieutenant; and, ordering his boat's crew to lie on their oars, he waited till we had passed, and then followed. "Ching going showee way," whispered the Chinaman to me. "But how do you know there is a place up there?" I said. "Have you ever been?"
He kept this one concealed in his hand and passed the deck to Roche, saying: "You pickee outee um jack of hearts and me allee samee showee how me makee fly away." The man quickly looked over the cards and found that the jack of hearts was not among them. "I reckon you took it when no one was looking," he said, with a smile. "That is not much of a trick; I could do that myself."
"You come 'long o' Ching, I showee something velly nice ploper." "All right," I cried. "Now, Tanner, go and try it on with the doctor." "No, no. Ask offlicer. Doctor only give flizzick. Velly nastee. Ugh!" Ching's round face was a study as he screwed it up to show his disgust with the doctor's preparations. Barkins went off and returned directly.
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