The Archive · 1928

Lesson in Natural History

"flow fashion no true?" We ask-in an endeavour to get at what] Wong was driving.

"Anytime you pay dog bone. Jus' now he no wantehee, You tink he take bone for walk?"

te "Gohse. 'No.' He go garding side, make one small piece hole for hidee. 'T'en he sit down look see whole no othah dog can eatehee. T's man he talked dog go for walk. Uh? He no sabee nothin."

"Yeu. But Wong this man have write two thousand. year before. May be dogs were different then."

2 Oh, Yes! Planty And there was scorn in his celestial eye as he said it.

We had hoped to point moral will' the story. Tt had either misfired, or Wong was beating us at our oxen game, We reverted to the more direct attack.

"Well, Wong, I'm not going to argue with you. You savee 1 chow milk. Tno have see milk side for more than one month. Next time, Wong, you 0. That's not ini We fixed him with a stony glare While he pushed the fish back on an agitated plate with his finger. placed before us, and stalked soleninly rom the room.

The rest of the meal pasid in silence, und as he handed us our bat as we left to return to the office, he asked in the meekest possible voice "Mahstah. You vinh I belong, tet? What sida you tink tat dog eatchee that bone?"

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