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Updated: June 16, 2025
"I don't feel as if I could enjoy anything to-day." "Right, then. No, Ching; back on board ship." "You go velly soon? Now?" "Yes, directly." Ching smiled he had a habit of smiling at everything nearly, and we paid our reckoning and followed him down to the landing-place, to arrive there just in time to see the barge with the captain and his escort gliding rapidly away toward the ship.
"Doesn't seem like it," I said, beginning at last to feel so drowsy I could not keep my eyes open. "So velly dark, can't see." "Why, you don't think they will get by us in the darkness?" I said, waking up now with a start at his words, and the bad news they conveyed. "Ching can't tell. So velly dark, plenty junk go by; nobody see if velly quiet. Ching hope not get away.
"What's this?" said Barkins, turning his over with the chopsticks. "Velly good," said Ching, smiling, and making a beginning. "Yes; don't smell bad," said Smith. "I know: it's quails. There's lots of quail in China. 'Licious!"
"How did it really happen, Li Ho?" asked Spence. Not that he expected any information. "Moon-devil velly mad," said Li Ho. "Honorable Boss no watch step. Moon-devil push too bad!" "And the fight in the kitchen? And on the trail?" Li Ho shook his head. "No fight anywhere," he said blandly. "And this long rip in your coat?" "Too much old coat catch 'um in bush," said Li Ho.
"We must pay him the proper fare." "Velly well, pay him ploper money." I anticipated trouble, but when we got to the side and a dollar was handed to the man, his heavy round face lit up with pleasure, and he said something aloud. "What does he say, Ching?" I asked. "Say velly glad, and didn't tink he get anything 'tall."
"But one moment, Mr Brooke," I said; "are we sure that those are the right junks?" "I feel sure," he said. "What do you say, my lads?" "Ay, ay, sir, them's right," chorussed the men. "Yes, Ching velly sure those pilate junk." "I know one on 'em, sir," said Jecks, "by her great yard. I never see a junk with such a big un afore. Talk about the cut of a jib I says, look at the cut of her mainsail."
"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?"
In his kitchen that evening he and Bolles unpacked the good things the olives, the dried fruits, the cigars brought by the new superintendent for Christmas; and finding Bolles harmless, like his gentle Asiatic self, Sam looked cautiously about and spoke: "You not know why they laugh," said he. "They not talk about my meat then. They mean new boss, Misser Dlake. He velly young boss."
I'm hungry again, aren't you?" Smith sighed. "I'm always hungry," he said. "Of course you are. I believe he's hollow all through, Gnat. How do you feel?" "As if I haven't had any breakfast," I said earnestly. Ching smiled. "Velly much nicee bleakfast all along o' Ching."
"Feel muchee better?" I did not answer, only squeezed his hand, and turned to see how Tom Jecks was, but he did not seem to have stirred, and we then ate sparingly of our biscuits, and drank more sparingly of the water. "Must be velly careful," Ching said again; "no get more till pilate gone 'way." That day went by like a portion of some feverish dream.
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