The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13

1t was over the sea, in the land of tea,
by the beautiful river they call Yang Use,
10 which an additional name they hang,
Making the river Yang Use Kang,
a baby was born in a Chinese town:
But look OF scorn and terrible frown
Ger the face of the father was seen to curl,
girl.
Now the father, whose name was Hang U.
High.
Was the last Of the race of the great ]. Ligh,
me father OF Chinese history.
lie was very proud of his pedigree,
And even declared chat his lineage ran
In 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 step in his place,
Down the race-course of time to continue his
race;
But alas for his hopesl "Chug UNI whirll
Chug um whirlV
He muttered which means "Its grill It's a
And Re epgriIy Kissed: "olack whang bog
loundH'
Which means il their language 1T must be
drownedw
Though the mother, in words that sound i'm
Insiptdly pleaded: "Oh, Hang o., Twouldn'tlr'
lie sternly answered: Clack whang DO
Which means in their language ut 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
10 smoke his pipe in the open air.
But the good Ar Chang had tender heart
dc 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 his purse as well
Still he couldn't think what in the world to do
And he stood in agony clutching his queue
ANA pullingiit downward until he drew
Ills eyes clear up to the top ofhis head,
Till they looked like long diagonal gashes
stretched over his forehead and fringed
with lashes,
Then, letting them down-"I have It'll" 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 Chinee
Who charged me two prices formy "washee:''
lie said: - got girl-ee same old like this,
Got too much-ee gtrl-ee; my wife-ee no miss
One z rice. Ar Chang save-ee yo' girl-ee life,
! take-ee Uo' girEee light home to my wife,
1dloWn-ee mn girlee i'm liver Kiangl
You giyee much money to poo Ar Changi"
Then gratitude stole down the beautiful
of the mothers long.eyes, and she gave such
glance t
OF approval, he cried: at would rather be
Chang,
And serve such a generous mistress, than
Hangl"
lie carried Tee-Hee to his own little hut,
Where the floors wore of dirt and the frescoes
of SCOT
And he saldto his wife; al have snapped for
Tee-Hee;
We must dlown-ee our girl-ee in liver Yang
Use
And our mistless she give-ee much money to
IT will go, answered she, " and wrap Minnee
Ting Loo
In Tee-Hee's little mantle and bring her to
yOu,"
And then, with a smile of approval, withdrew.
Now it CHANGED Mrs. Chang he'd the masculine
OF playing n low "and eoncealino her heart
In short, OF enacting duplicate part.
for expecting the time when her husband
would say:
I'VE are poor; wen put Minnee Ting out of
the way
She had built rag baby with marvellous skill,
Placed spring here and there for the sake
of the wriggle
Supplied, its small chest with bladder and
quill,
So that touch IL 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, t.-ss 8..t fFF5s EN-
And, bearing IL SO as to start II to cooling
Right into the arms of her husband she laid IT,
Thus Chang bore it down toward the river
Kiang, #IEt. |E#
But happened, in passing the vigilant Hang,
10 stumble, which caused it to kick and to
COO,
Till Hang cried: "Awayl I'll accompany Won.
never can rest till it's safe in the water,
Lest the mother, has bribed you to rescue my
Then quick in the pitiless river they threw
What to Hang was Tee-Hee and to Chang was
Ting Loo.
Each day, while the notable Hang IT, High
was reading the books of the great /. Ligh,
His wife stole away to the hut of Ar Chang,
WINE Chang acted spy DER the motions of
Hang, b @aE#
But Chang never dreamed as he watched by
the wall rm
10 give warningi if Hang at his hovel should
call,
That his dear little wife from its hiding-place
drew t =
The only original Minnee Ting Loo,
limb
10 peep at his master, that out of the dim
him.
And it never occurred to Hang u. High,
AS he studied the books of the great l. Ligh
Ihat instead of retrenching on little Tee-Hee
By drowning the child in the river Yang Use,
His lucre provided provisions for three.
W. W. Fink, IN Century.