Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-03-24
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A Chinaman i'm the Kitchen,

Of all household trials and tortures, W
think those of Miss Mallory, as recited t.
her friend Ann Ryan-in ,Scribner's Month
Ly for January-must have been the sorest
Miss Mallory, be it understood, had "iv,
good characters from respectable places,
and was well settled in her new situation
when ''rale haythen Chineser, GRIMM
as if he'd just come off tay box" was in
troduced into the family as a waiter: ~
'.Well, the ways and trials had vic
that Chineser, Ann Ryan, 1 couldn'tbe tel
lin Fot blissed thiug.cud I do but he'c
be lookin'' on wild his eyes cooked up'ard like
two poomp- handles, an he widout a specE
or smitch O. whiskers on him, an his finger.
nails full yard long But it's dyin' YOU
be to see the missus a. larnin' him, and be
grindin' an waggin' his pig-tail (Which was
placed out long wild some black stool. the
haythen chate y and gettin' into her wayl
was wonderful quick I don't deny imitatin
that sharp, you'd be surprised and ketchin
and copyin' things the best of us will do q
hurried wild work, yet don't want comm te
the knowledge Of the family-bad luck to
him
''Is it ate wild him Arrah, an would be
sittin' wild haythen an be a-atin wild drum
sticks--yes, an attn dogs an cats uu.
knownst to me, warrant you, which it is
the custom of them Chinesers, till the
thought made me that sick I could die. Blu,
the worrest of all was the copyin' he'd be
dom till ye'd be distracted. It's yersel
knows the finder feet that on me since ever
I've bin in this country. Well, OWN to
that O. slippin me shoes off when I'd be sit.
tin down to pale the praities or the likes O.
that, and, do ye mind that haythen wonld
do the same thing after me whiniver the
missus set him to parin' apples Or tomater-
SEES. The saints in Heaven could't have
made him believe he cud kape the shoes on
him when he'd be palm anything. ao
''Did l leve fur that? Fax, an didn't.
Didn't he get me into throuble wild nv mis-
sus, the heythen? You're aware yerssl' how
the hoendles comm, in from the grocery Of
ten contains more'n Il 60 into anything da-
Gently. So, for that matter, I'd now and
then take out cup O. sugar, or -four, or
tay, an wrap it in paper an put it in me bit
of box tucked under the ironin' blankit the
how it cudden't be bodderin' aay one. We'll,
what shud it be, but this blessed Saturday
morn the missus was spakin' pleasant and
respectful wild NE in the kitchen, when the
grocer boy comes in an stands forrest her
wild his boondles, an she motions like to
Fling Wing (Which I never would call him
by thet name nor any other but Just hay
then, } she motions to him, she does, for to
take boondles and empty out the sugar an
what not where they belongs. If you'll be-
lave me, Ann Ryan, what did that batherin
Chineser do but take out cup o. sugar, an
a handful o tay, an a bit of chase, right
afore the missus, wrap them into bits O. pa
per, and l spacheless wild surprise, an the
next minute up wild Ike ironia' blankit and
O bein' sly, to put them in Och, the
Lord forgive me, but clutched it, and the
missus sayin,' 0 Kittyp in way that I'D
cruddle your blood. Giles hay then ma
GER says I. I've found you OUT says
She 'Tll artist him., says l. It's you
ought to be arristed,' says she. You won't,
says. I WILL says she-and so it went till
she gave me such sass as I cuddon't take
from no lady-an' give her warnin' an
left that instant, an she a pointin' to the
doore.' any ug h6