The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-05-04
BsIdget's Ways and Trials with Chi
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Och don't be talkin.' Is it howl,
on We say? An didn't / hOWld on Ill
the heart of me was clane broke en-
tire!y, and me wastin' that thin yOy
could clutch me wild your tw,
hands To think of me tOilin' like &
nagur for the six years I've been il
Ameriky. Bad lnck to the day l i've,
left the Ould counthTay, TO be bate by
the likes Of tnim. lFaix, an I'll si
down when Pm ready, so I will. AnI
Ryan, an ye'd better belistenin' thar
drawin' your remarks An is il me.
self, with five good characters from
respectable places, would be herdin'
wild the haythens The saints for.
give me, but I'd be buried alive soon
er'n put up wild it a day longer. Sure
an / was the granehOrn not to be Ia
vim at onct whin the missus came in
the kitchen wild h-T palaver about the
new waiter man which was brought
out from CalifOTny. "HeII be here
this night" says she, "and Kitty, it's
! meseIf looks to you To be kind and pa
tient wild him, fur he's a furriner,u -
/ says she, kind O'lookin' of. "Sure
an it's little I'll hinder nor interfere
/ wild him nor any other, num-" says
l, kind o. stiff, for l minded me how
these French walters, with their pa
/ per collars and brass rings on their fin
gers, isn'S company for no guril
brought up dacint and honest. Och :
sOTra a bit knew was comm till the
missus walked into me kitchen
smIlin', and says kind o. skeared.
''Here's Fling Wing, Kitty, and you'll
have too much sinse to mind his bein1
little strange" Wild that she shuts
the dOOre, and /, mistrusting if I was
tidied up sufficient for me foine buy
wild his paper collar, looks up, and
hOwly fathers may l never brathe
another breath but there stood u rale
haythen Chineser, a GRIMM like he'd
just come Offa tay box. IfyOu'u be-
lave me, the crayture was that yeller
it Ud sicken yOI to see him; an sOrra
a stitch was on him but a black night
gown over his trOwsers, an the front of
his herd shaved cleaner than q copper
boiler, and black tail hangin' down
from behind, with his two feet stuck
into the haythenest shoes you ever set
eyes on. Och! but / was up stairs be-
fore you could turn about, givin' the
missus warning, an only stopped
with her by raisin' me wages two dol
lars, and pladin' wild me how it was a
Christians duty to bear wild haythens
and taich EN- all in our power. The
saints save US! Well, the ways and
trials I had wild that Chineser, Ann
Ryan, / couldn't be tellin'. Not a
blissid thing could do but he'd be
lOOkin' wild his eyes cooked Up'ard like
two pOOmp-handles, an he widOut a
speck or smitch o. whiskers on him,
an his fiuger-nails full yard
long. But it's dyin' you'd be to see
the missus q larnin' him, an he grim
min an Vaughn his pig-tail (which
was pieced out long wild some black
stuff, the haYthen chate y and gettin'
into her ways wonderful. quick, | don't
deny, imitatin' that sharp, you'd be
surprised, ana ketchiI' an cOpyin'
things the best of us will do a-huTried
wild work, yet don't want comm to
the knowledge Of the family, bad luck
to him.
Is it ate wild him? Arrah, an
would be sittin' wild a haythen an
he a aiten wild drum stieks-yes, an
attn dogs an cats unbeknOwnst to
me, warrant you, which it is the
custom of them Chinesers, till the
thought made me that sick 1 could
die. an didn't the crayture prOffer
to help me a wake ago come TOOsday,
an me a foldin' down me clane clothes
for the irOnin,' and then film his
haythen mouth wild water, and afOre
[ could hinder, squirt it through his
teeth stret over the best linnen table
cloth, an fold it up tight as inherent
now as 4 baby, the dirty basteI But
the wOrrest of all was the cOpyin' he'd
be dOin' till ye'd be distracted. It's
yerself that knows the tinder feet
that's on me iver since I've been in
this country. Well, OWN to that
fell into a way o. slippin' me shoes off
when I'd be settin' down to pale the
praties, or the like o. that, an do We
mind, that haythen would do the
same thing aftheT me whiniver the
misses set him to parin' apples or ter
The saints in heaven
couldn't have made him behave he
eud kape the shoes on him when he'd
Too Initiative Did I lave for that
Faix an did. Didn't he get me into
thrOuble wild my missus, the haythenl
You're aware yerself how the boom
comm from the grocery often
contain mOre'n'll go into anything da-
Gently. So, for that matter, I'd now
and thin take out a sup o. sugar, or /
flour, or tay, an wrap it in paper, an
put it in me bit of box tucked under
the irOnin' blanket the how it couldn't
be bOddeTin' any one. Well, what
shud it be but this blessed Saturday
morn the missus was a spakin' pleas /
antandrespectful wild me lin the kitch- /
en-, when the grocer boy comes in an l
stands fornest her wild his boOndIes, /
and she motions like to Fling Wing !
(which 1 never could call him by that
name or any other but just haythen,) /
she motions to him, she does, for to /
take the bOOndles an empty out the
sugar an what not where they be-
longs. If you'll behave me, Ann Ry-
an, what did that blatherin' Chineser /
10 but take out sup o. sugar, an a /
handful o. tay, an bit o. cheese, !
right afOre the missus, wrap them in |.
bits o. paper, am I spacheless with T.
shUrprise, am the next minute up wild /
he irOnin' blankit, and pullin out me
box wild a show O. bein' sly to put
them in. Och, the Lord forgive me,
but l clutched it, an the missus said |
10, Kitty ~ in a way that 'ud curdle
your blood. ''He's a haytheR nagur,"
says I. 'T've found you out" says !
she. fT'll artist him." says I. ''It's |
you ought to be arristid," )" says she. !
fYou won't, says I. 81 WILL" says |
she, an so it went till she gave me |
such sass as 1 cud6ent take from no /
ady, an / give her warnin' an left /.
hat instant, an she pOintin' to the /.
iOore.