Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-07-19
LITTLE TEE-HEE.

1t was over the sea, in the land Of tea,
BY the beautiful river they call Yang Use,
To which an additional name they hang,
Making the river Yang Use Kiang.
A baby was born in Chinese town:
But a look of scorn and a terrible frOwn
Ger the face of the father was seen to curl,
When he learned that his baby was only q
"a girl.
Now the father, whose name was Hang l.
High,
Was the last of the race of the great ]. Ligh,
The father of Chinese history.
He was very proud of his pedigree,
And even declared that his lineage ran
In a line direct to the very first man.
His greatest ambition was now to see
Another limb on his family tree.
A boy who could finally sep in his place,
Down the race-coursc of time to continue his
race;
But alas for his hopes! "Chug UNI whirl
Chug um whirl.''
He muttered, which means ITS girl! It's q
girl."'
And he a5n!g,rily Missed: "Clack whang bog
Which means in their language 1T must be
drowned"
Though the mother, in words that sound i'm
Insipidly pleaded: ooh, Hang T., Iwouldn't..'
He sternly answered.: "Clack whang be
quid!'
Which means in their language at must be
did,"
So he called his servant and said: "Ar Chang
Go drown that thing in the river Kiang;'
Then turned away with an angry glare,
To smoke his pipe in the open air.
But the good Ar Chang had tender heart.
He saw it was hard for the mother to part
From her little girl, yet, strange to tell,
The sorrow that on his heart-strings fell
Affected the strings of his purse as well.
Still he couldn't think what i'm the world to do
And he stood in agony clutchng his queue
A a u
His eyes clear up to the top of his head.
Till they looked like long diagonal gashes
Stretched over his forehead and fringed
with lashes.
Then, letting them DOWN. have it," he
said.
But the rest that he said will tell to thee
In the very words it was told to me
BY that honest, efficient and noble Chnce
Who charged me two prices for my "washee:
He said: II got girl-ee same old like this,
Got too much-ee girl-ee: my wife-ee no miss
/ take-ee go girlee light home to my wife,
dlown-ee my girl-ee in liver Kiang.
YOngivee much money to poo AR Chang."
Then gratitude stole down the beautiful
OF the mothers long.leyes, and she gave such
glance
OF approval, he cried: 81 would rather be
Chang,
And serve such a generous mistress. than
Hang!"
Where the floors were OF dirt and the frcscoes
of SCOT,
And he said TO his wife: ~ have snapped for
ec-Hcc;
We must dlown-ee our girl-ee in liver Yang
And our mistless she give-ec much money to
wei"
~ will co." answered she, land wrap Minnee
In Tee-Hee's little mantle and bring her to
you,
II, IL.
Now it CHANGED Mrs. Chang had the masculine
Of"paying it low and concealing her heart.
In short, of enacting a duplicate part.
For expecting the time when her husband
would say:
1--WE arc poor; wen put Minnce Ting out of
the way,
She had built a rag baby with marvellous skill,
Placed spring here and there for the sake
of the wrggle,
Supplied its small chest with bladder and
Quill,
So that touch it who would the rag baby
would giggle;
Just the size of Ting Loo-she had measured
and weighed it
And now, with the skill she had learned when
she made it,
She pinned on the cloak past all hope of I'M
doing,
And. bearing it SO as to start it to cooling,
Right into the arms of her husband she laid it.
Thus Chang bore it down toward the river
kiang,
But happened, in passing the vigilant Hang
To stumble, which caused it to kick and to
coo,
Till Hang cried: Away! I'll accompany YOU
never can rest till it's safe in the water.
Lest the mother has bribed you to rescue my
daughter.
Then quick i'm the pitiless river they threw
What to Hang was Tee-IIee and to Chang was
Ting Loo.
Each day, while the notable Hang u. High
Was reading tie books of the great |. Igh,
Hiswife stole away to the hut of AR Chang,
While Chang acted spy Ger the motions of
Hang.
But Chang never dreamed as he watched by
the wall
To give warning if Hang at his hovel should
call.
That has dear little wife from its hiding-place
drew
The only original Mnnee Ting Loo.
Nor supposed, as he stretched to its limit each
limb
To peep at his master. that out of the dim
OF his howell two mothers kept watch upon
him.
And it never occurred to Hang u. High,
As he studied the books of the great l. Ligh.
That instead of retrenching on little Tee Hee
BY drowning the child in the river Yang Use,