The Heathen Chinee. 
 
 I 
 
 Which I wish to remark 
 
 And my language is plain- - 
 That for ways that art; dark. 
 
 And for tricks that arc vain, 
 The Heathen Chinee in peculiar, 
 
 Which the name 1 would rise to explain. 
 
 AH SIN wan hiss name ; 
 
 And I si tail not deny 
 In regard to the same, 
 
 What that, name might imply, 
 But Inn smile it wan pensive and child-like, 
 
 AH I frequent )emarked to Bill Nye. 
 
 It was August the third, 
 
 And quite soft was the skies; 
 Which it might be inferred 
 
 That AH Six was likewise ; 
 Yet lie 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 ua he sat by the table, 
 
 With a smile (hat was child-like and bland. 
 
 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. 
 
 Bnt 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. 
 
 Then I looked up at Nye, 
 
 And he gazed upon me ; 
 And he rose with a sigh 
 
 And he said - "Can this be ? 
 We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor ; " 
 
 And ho went for that Heathen Chinee. 
 
 In the scene that ensued 
 
 I dif, not take a hand, 
 But the floor it was strewed, 
 
 Like the leaves on ihe strand, 
 With the cards that AH Six had been hiding 
 
 In the game "he did not understand." 
 
 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 
 
 What 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 Pleathen Chinee is peculiar 
 
 Which the same I am free to maintain. 
 
 TABLE MOUXTAIX, 1870. 
 
 Endicott & Co., Lithographers, 59 Bcekman St., 
 New York. 
 
 
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