St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-07-21
LITTLE TEE-HEE.

LITTLE I.EE-HEE.
It 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 kiang.
a baby was born in q Chinese town;
But look Of scorn and a terrible frown
Der the face Of the father was seen to curl,
When he learned that his baby was only a
girl.
Now the father, whose name was Hang U.
High.
The father OF Chinese history.
He was very proud, of his pedigree,
And even declared that his lineage ran
In q line direct to the very first man.
His greatest ambition was now to see
Another limb on his family tree,
boy who could finally sep in his place,
Down the race-course of time to continue his
race; Id
But alas 10, as hopes. &" Chug UNI whirl!
Chug um whirl!'
He muttered, which means It's girl! It's
girl!'
And he ang,rily Missed: "Clack whang bog
Which means in their language !" It must be
drowned!'' E;y
Though the mother, in words that sound i'm
Insipfdly pleaded: 'sOh, Hang u, Twouldn't.!n
He sternly answered: sClack whang DO
quid i''e9 VIZ
which means in their language at must be
didr ~.
So he called his servant and said car Chang,
Go drown that thing in the river Kiang;' III
Then turned away with an angry glare,
To smoke his pipe in the open air.
But the good Ar Chang had tender heart
He say it was hard for the mother to part
The sorrow that on his heart-strings fell
Affected the strings Of his purse as wel;
Still he couldn't think whas in the world to do,
And he stood in agony clutching his queue
And pulling It downward until he drew
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-"I have it," he
said z
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 Chfnee
Who charged me two, prices formy washer"
He said: : got girEee same old like this.
Got too much-ee girl-ee; my wife-ee no miss
One Rice. Ar Chang save-ee yo' girl-ee life,
I take-ee uo' girl-ee light home to my wife,
! dlown-ee my girl-ee in liver Kiang!
You giyee much money to poo Ar Chang"
Then gratitude stole down the beautiful
slants
Of approval. he cried: 81 would rather be
Chang,
And serve such generous mistress, than
Hang!"
He carried Tee-Hee to his own little hut
Where the floors were of dirt and the frescoes
And he said to his wife: II have snapped for
Tee-Hee;
We must dloWn-ee our girl-ee in liver Yang
And our mistless she give-ee much money to
81 viii go,,, answered she, :. and wrap Minnee
In Tee-Hees little mantle and bring her to
you,'' 4sfi.THs
And then, with smile of approval withdrew.
Now it CHANGED Mrs. Chang had the masculine
In short. Of enacting a duplicate part.
For expecting the time when her husband
1--WE are poor: wen put Minnee Ting out of
She had built q rag baby with marvellous skill
Placed q spring here and there for the sake
of the wriggle,
Supplied its small chest with a bladder and
So that touch it who would the rag baby
would giggle;
and weighed it
And now, with the skill she had learned when
she made it, t1a
She pinned on the cloak past all hope OF un-
And bearing it SO as to start it to cooling,
Right into the arms Of her husband she laid it.
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But happened, in passing the yigilant Hang,
To stumble, which caused it to kick and to
coo, 7st88Ift# S~fk4
Till Hang cried: Away! I'll accompany you.
I never can rest till it's safe In the water.
Lest the mother has bribed you to rescue my
daughter f5}it
Then quick in the pitiless river they threw Il
What to Hang was Tee-Hee and to Chang was
a98 Ting Loo.
Each day. while the notable Hang o. High u,
Was reading the books OF the great /. Ligh, IA
His wife stole away to the hut of Ar Chang,
While Chang acted spy Ger the motions of
Hang. ~ Sff.
But Chang never dreamed as he. watched by
10 give warning if Hang at his hoyel should
cab, .3szE
That his dear little wife from its hiding place
II drew
The only original Minnee Ting Loo,
Nor supposed, as he stretched to its lmitEeach
limb 8s9aA y
To peep at his master that ont of the dim
OF his howell two mothers kept watch upon
him. t 35 II
And it never occurred to Hang u. High,
AS he studied the books of the great I. Ligh,
That instead of retrenching on little Tee-Hee
BY drowning the child in the river Yang Use,
His iucre provided provisions for three.
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