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Say pilate boat long way uppee liver in big cleek, waitee come down along lunning water in the dalk." "Then you pretty well know where they are?" said Mr Brooke. "No; far uppee liver; in cleek." "I suppose this is right?" said Mr Brooke to me. "Yes, quite light. Ching likee see Queen Victolia ship killee catch pilate."
"Shoot bird now," said Ching, in answer to an inquiring look from Mr Brooke. "Yes; but do you think the junks are up here?" "Oh yes, velly quite su'e. Plenty eye in boat watchee see what Queen Victolia offlicer going to do uppee river." "What does he mean?" said Mr Brooke, who was puzzled by this last rather enigmatical speech.
"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."
All of a suddent I hears a v'ice say, 'Puttee hands light uppee! Sounds like I'd struck a day nursery, but that ain't so, for just before I hears them words there popped out from behind a rock a Chinaman not, by no means, one of these here little Charlie-boys that does your wash and gives you a ticket with picters of strange insecks painted on it, but a whoopin', smashin' old Tartar pirate, seven foot by three, with mustaches like two tails of a small hoss, and cheekbones you could hang your hat on.
This time Ah-Fo looked genuinely bewildered, but he gazed at Dennis as if he would have given anything to understand him. "Uppee sleevee you know?" said Dennis, illustrating his meaning by signs. A grin of intelligence spread from ear to ear on Ah-Fo's countenance.
"He takee lillee tlip to huntee uppee some outlaws, so be," answered the Chinaman. "Me likee havee lillee tanglefoot; len me go outee huntee, too, so be." "Is that so? Well, I don't know how much of a hunter you are, but if yer are as good at it as yer are with ther cards you'll make out all right, I reckon." "Lat light."
After standing for a few seconds with his eyes shut and his head thrown back, so that his pig-tail nearly touched the ground, the scene appeared to return to his memory. "Eyah!" he chuckled, and turned to go, laughing as he went. "Don't forget the letters. Uppee sleevee, old Tea-tray!" roared Dennis. Ah-Fo flirted them out once more. "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed he, and went finally away.
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