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UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. \VHICH I \VIalI 10 KI MARK. PUBLISHERS NOTE. MR. EYTINGE S illustrations to "The Heathen Chinee" have been submitted to the author, and have received his 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. 9 \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. 13 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 UNIVERSITY BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP. SIXTEENTH EDITION. " Mr. Bret Harte has already won a reputation as one of the most original of American writers. The charm of his sketches is not only in his style. 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