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THE HEATHEN CHINEE. 
 
 BY 
 
 ^1 3/2 
 
 BRET HARTE. 
 
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AH SIN WAS HIS NAME. 
 
"THE HEATHEN CHINEE. 
 
 BY 
 
 BRET HARTE. 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. EYTINGE, JR. 
 
 
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 approval. The present is the only illustrated edition of 
 the poem published with the author s sanction. 
 
PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM 
 TRUTHFUL JAMES 
 
 TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870. 
 
The HcatJien Chinee. 
 
 \* 7 HIGH I wish to remark, - 
 
 And my language is plain, 
 That for ways that are dark 
 
 And for tricks that are vain, 
 The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 
 
 Which the same I would rise to explain. 
 
 Ah Sin was his name ; 
 
 And I shall not deny 
 In regard to the* same 
 
 What that name might imply, 
 But his smile it was pensive and childlike, 
 
 As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye. 
 
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\V11ICH WE HAD A SMALL GAME. 
 
The Heathen Chinee. 
 
 It was August the third : 
 
 And quite soft was the skies ; 
 
 Which it might be inferred 
 That Ah Sin was likewise ; 
 
 Yet he played it that day upon William 
 And me in a way I despise. 
 
 Which we had a small game, 
 
 And Ah Sin took a hand : 
 It was Euchre. The same 
 
 He did not understand ; 
 But he smiled as he sat by the table, 
 
 With the smile that was childlike and bland, 
 ii 
 
.L AT LAST HE TUT DOWN A RIGHT 1!O\VER. 
 
77/6 Heathen Chinee. 
 
 Yet the cards they were stocked 
 
 In a way that I grieve, 
 And my feelings were shocked 
 
 At the state of Nye s sleeve : 
 Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, 
 
 And the same with intent to deceive. 
 
 But the hands that were played 
 
 By that heathen Chinee, 
 And the points that he made, 
 
 Were quite frightful to see, 
 Till at last he put down a right bower, 
 
 Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. 
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AND HE WENT FOR THAT HEATHEN CHINEF-. 
 
TJic Heathen C/iinee. 
 
 Then I looked up at Nye, 
 
 And he gazed upon me ; 
 And he rose with a sigh, 
 
 And said, " Can this be ? 
 We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor," 
 
 And he went for that heathen Chinee. 
 
 In the scene that ensued 
 
 I did not take a hand, 
 But the floor it was strewed 
 
 Like the leaves on the strand 
 With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding", 
 
 In the game " he did not understand." 
 
THE SCENE THAT EXSU1 D. 
 

 77/6 Heathen Chinee. 
 
 In his sleeves, which were long, 
 
 He had twenty-four packs, 
 Which was coming it strong, 
 
 Yet I state but the facts ; 
 And we found on his nails, which were taper, 
 
 \Vhat is frequent in tapers, that s wax. 
 
 Which is why I remark, 
 
 And my language is plain, 
 That for ways that are dark, 
 
 And for tricks that are vain, 
 The heathen Chinee is peculiar, 
 
 Which the same I am free to maintain. 
 
IN HIS SLEEVES HE HAD TWENTY-FOUR PACKS. 
 
WHICH IS WHY I K1MAKK. 
 
OF THE 
 
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 
 
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