Or the Banana Hawkers' Revenge:
A Tale of Abduction on the High Huangpu Too long have Hongkong and Canton boasted to the world of their monopoly of China pirates. The Model Settlement has been aroused to a sense of its responsibilities and has installed a splendid pirate plant—fierce banana-hawkers, who abduct Municipal policemen peacefully basking on the Bund and spirit them away to the dungeons of the River Police Hulk.
And this is the way of it. Pootung Covent Gardeners have been in the habit of coming over with the morning's flood tide of coolies from Pootung and hawking their wares on the Nanking Road jetty. The business flourished until Police Constables Sung Tsung-ding and Moo Yung-san came on the beat and they, having carefully read up the rules, hustled the hawkers away. On Monday, the hawkers were there as usual and P. C. Sung ordered: '(Move on there!" P. C. Moo chimed in with: ' Igher-rup, *igher-rup, me lad!"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.