The really remarkable discovery that among the Chinese employed. at" Earl's Court' in the representation of the siege and relief of Peking were certain Boxers agitated the great heart of the Shanghai foreign community to a point bordering on syncope. Their number—sevent their fiewze and warlike appearance: the determination with which they enforced their demands upon Mr. Imré Riralfy, all contributed to this effect, and the great heart panted, after the prescribed manner, for more news of them. Accordingly at once communicated with one many representatives in London—man of distinguished knowledge in_ matters Chinese, skilled in the lingua franco of this country, and celebrated for the advoitness. with which he has evaded membership of the China Assoeiation—dosising him to personally enquire into the matter.
age is still pleasantly redolent of the East).
1 got your chit, he writes us_(his langwand ported off to Earl's Court. There, after considerable difficulty, I got speech with one Ah Pooh, of whom it was whis-red to me that he wasa distinguished loxer leader, of extraordinary—bloodthirstiness, repressing only with difficulty his desire for the life and the dismemberment of every foreigner he saw.
As I approached: hin he leapt, several the air, crying was here that my knowledge of his Yanguage stood me in good stead. "Man
shot, and as he did so bent with the Mani" T cried, "He stopped as though movements of one placing something upon the ground. The man was given into my finds, T dropped again into his language, mastery of which I have by no means lost. "What thing this fool-pidgin T asked.
He grinned cavernously, but said nothing.
"Who man you? My sabe you no belong Boxer," T went on.
"Mastah," he said, "you no wanchee talked any man." greed. but you must wanchee
Before, id, and TE could se fi as he spoke.
What si hans ide." undaunted and bloodthirsty Boxer, unwittingly harboured in an' alarmed. and nervous London. This was the wolf tricked out for the nonce in sheep's clothing, Away with this clothing, and he Aiscovered ax very lamb. T'seemed to have the odour of mint sauce in my_ nostrils. Then I laughed loud and long, for a light Jurst in-on me. Thad a picture mind of the Bund, thousands of miles with its unending stream of vehicles foot passengers—and_ among those vehi ie the" frequent drawn by th hat weakest, most effete, spai wd, degenerate, slowest and nest long suttfering of brutes, the Shanghai cool T looked again at Ah Pooh, and, ax I say, uughed loud and long. "Sweet," 1 thought. "sare the uses of Advertisement.
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