Mr. Average Shanghsilander, on ithe score that for the gander the sauce which some call gravy is the came as for the goose, said, "By wife and child forsaken, I am very' much mistaken if I do not put the interval to profitable use." He had' worked like any nigger, with his finger on the trigger or, perhaps "were better stated, his attention on the beat of the pulse of trade pre-curious involving many various commodities, which business plainly' suffered from the heat. When fo-/0a, T use a "figger" of speech: em-to- ay that like a nigger hho had work. [Play simile that's very vague at qu[best. Mr."
Shanghai-Ge, had cacentbed Paganda recommending that " business man needs 20 hours rest.
He announced, "Forthwith, I'l take it." And the plan, as he did make it, you'll have guessed, dis-Jcerning Reader, no provision mad for sleep; bat for constant recreation, elsewhere known as dissipation, which so many deem essential C their fitness they would keep.
He was feeling far from frisky, 50 he ordered up a whisky. As he he reflected, "There's so one really hadn't oughter take a chance with drinking. water, and, besides, this pure Glen Kobe has 'a better kick, by far." So he promptly had another, meanwhile thinking of his brother who, a lowly clark in -England, these ismail pleasures was denied. the clock said but eleven, "Will it never come? By Heaven, it's a shame to work, this weather:" he Full another hour he pondered Jand then sensibly he wandered to!
of which even mariners pro-deadly bar, where, in com. he'd a half a €ozen "ponies" which he sought to neutralize by means of Pootung Next, behold him at the table where, with all the food he's able to stow into his stomach, puts himself into @ stew, which he' washes down with claret' finely labelled, "Best Bulgaret," (emanating from the very fairest vineyanis of Hongkew). Though the very name of water affects ce Pharaoh's daugh~ ter, and his system to contaminate with it hed never dream, yet he ed like a glutton, with some dozen heaping portions' of bacilliery ice-cream. Nor is yet the orgy ended. No, indeed. Till he's expended his. lust remaining energy on coffee with some cheese, although feeling some. what logy, would not think of light ing stogy or relaxing to an attitude conducive of more case. Having heard that drinks of brandy often jecme in very handy as a means of prophylaxis when much sickness about, he makes uso of the prescription and in doses whose description would amaze you, and, thereafter, thinks himself immune, no doubt.
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