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He is taller than usual, and ifed 5 listless withal, as to work, and indifferent friendly advances on the part of wayside conversational-ts. He could not be mach uglier—wide routh with well-coloured teeth spoil the beauty of his occasional laugh. He has no complex Before talks he sucks in breath, and the side of his mouth is dmwo' up—derhaps through nervousness—into @ small snarl. As ho goes about his work he talks fo himself, repeating his instructions over and over again to make sure of them; thus fulfilling the letter of the law.
Heis a man of settled habits. There isa time for everything. Tell him to take aletter at an unwonted ho r, and he is troubled. "But Tam c water now," be says. T sometimes call, and get mo answer jagain,—and there cones a muffled reply from the kitchen, After the third bellow, he will come to the door with a ric basin at his peded utterance" What me Tete chopsticks in position, asking with What can you want with me now Can't gousee that Tam having my breakfast V've done? "—are all im lied in that jacely you have the decan-y to wait till tone.
Some friends were spending the evenirg with us, and the time went quickly. Suddenly there came a knock, and to voice' sounded "The water is taken; please go have your pith!" Yet ves to himself the right of tion. Some rules are most hoaourin breaking, being but arbitrary, and plicable to present circumstances. So the supply of water for the morning bath is suddenly cut of, and when expostulated with, he says in a surprised way: "But you have not used it forthe Inst three days!" Sometimes he jes the shutters in broad daylight.
The lamp is all ready," he postulates, keep opn the shutters 7"
One morning all the boots remained unblacked; and carrying out a muddy pair to him, we confronted him.
"But Thad no blacking, master "Well, why did you not come and ask for rome?"
"How can I black boots without any A relative recommended lim to us, when his predecessor loft suddenly for his misdeeds. The much zeal in son rong in China. We knew when he arrived. Here was no nervousness. A great voice in the kiteh be washed upon the road. did go! The wind nearly blew one out!" The officials would not sus wor him when ho asked for information. How was he to know the station! They wanted him to pay for another man of ations to buy age, & man who bad g and could not clamber back again in time. And he buried hie nose in a cup of fresh toa.
Ho was an older man than usual, and found it somewhat difficult to Gt himself in with his unaccustomed work. Sweeping rooms, and cleaning windows he had never heard of such foolishness! Why do it? Lot there be reform in the house of the foreigner!
They perhaps did foo! the cold, and needed a fire. If they could afford to burn all that wood and charcoal, why, let them! But he was not going to relight it la the evening, if they let it out in the day,—giving him that ad. ditional trouble for nothing!
And the management of the house was in the of a woman! He hal to do what she said! Ile, a man of forty, to be dictated to by that chit of a thing?
Ore day in he came, a tall gaunt figure, and, with his chin high in the air, his head on one ig one of the pictures on the right-hand wall, he protested solemnly against injustice. Not that ho himself had anything to complain of; he had received sympathetic treatment from both of us. Tt was not that; but others were being misjudged. They were young, and he would go home. It might be his fault, and he would go at once.
There he stood with" trow sandals in his hand, ready for th back. We soothed him, tel he was labouring under a misapprohen-'That we were obliged sometimes to have a say really it was our house. him to help us in the hou-that we appreciated his services. Let him talk it over with the others, 33
We thought he had gone, but we saw him about ay usual, with the same pro-occupied air, and we heard no more about it.
He has somewhat mellowed since then, and no longer protests, except in the little cough that clears his throat.
"Foreigners' ways are not our ways, and we must humour them," he saya— mike such a fuse, about' liete treat me 1 though they things that don't matter, Besides cherish a heart of long-suffering,"
family to support.
you not think, oh my iodigusat reader, that such a fockloas one la unit for employment? That such indulgence jas T have herein shown is plainly ing of authority teach him better and manners, or dismiss him your service with contumely 7 4 But I frankly sy that I have small wish t> lose him. I might gain in his stond a more capable,—and less honest—coolie; for h" is honest. Any attempt fat the other thing are so olumey as show forth the novice. broke the cup ban stick it in its place again with ome dregs of cocoa. We feat no xuch shallow guile as that, Tv is often with.my "Oh, that coolie but -koows hie even at the nse of a modicum of authority and evement, isnot thing to all
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