"Sag yon's Wong?" The speaker did not know that Wong is not the gentleman's real name. We explained this to him, adding that for reasons of our "own we had evolved the alias more particularly, as we explained in the idiom, bes cause we were not "a loaf of yes terday's bakin'!" Whereupon our guest retorted "Mebbe, laddie, but it's a sair beety yer mither didna pit mair raisin' in ye." We had had to the house for dinner as we had some business to discuss, and, wwe ato a trifle shy about speaking foreign "languages. in public.
Whether it was the innate dignity, of Wong, or the accurate eye with which he estimated the amount 28 water required, we do not know, but our guest evidently yearned to~ wards our servitor and during the evening he wandered whether. Wong had ever seen the grey: hounds and what his ideas were fon the subject,
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