The herald., 1898-11-11
. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 3
), DOOltY ON THE
DUTIES OF A SON

Dooley. IL niver see wan liked, an I'd
go as nakid as an egg rather than wear
shirt wan iv thin had exploded his face
again. But I'll say this: the Chinese has
good way iv bringing up family.
Il see here in this pa-aper that tn Chin
ese impror, kid iv boy, has been turned
down be his mother, tn rile impress.
Twas this way: She's his mother, an
thin again she isn't. That is to say, Hin
missy, she took him in. Like as not, some
wan come f'r washin' an left TIL kid on tn
counter Well, the poor woman was what
ye might call childless. She had ony
siven or eight hundherd childher, an her
mothers heart went out to tn poor waif,
an says she: III take him in, she says,
an whin he grows up she says I'll get
the sprinklin' pot she says, and pour his
name on tn sign above tn dure, she says.
And she took him in.
"Well, he growed up like all other la-ads.
on'y Chinnymen don't grow up as much as
our people, Hinnissy, an whin tn time
comes she says, 'Packy, she says, 'ye're q
big boy now, an I'm gettin' DID, she says,
an can't do the wurruk,' she says, on &C.
count iv me poor teeth she says. Yer
names on tn dure, she says. Here's the
latchkey,' she says, am whin We want ex.
she says, where ye can hit tn pipe she
says.
"Packy was pleased with this an fr
time he done well. But, bein, tn sole pro.
pritor iv th' shop an impror iv all tn Chi
nese, twas not long befure his cr-rown got
too small FIR tn head iv him. He took to
stayin' out late iv nights with tn Fr-rinch
ambass' dure an tn English ambass' dure,
an comm home loaded with intense cor
dyas an semi-offical notes. He got into
a fight with tn Jap 'nese in tn next block
an come near LAWN his life in their hands.
An he was proud with tn old lady. He
dhruv all her Of frinds out iv tn house.
'Maw,' he says, L wisht We wudden't have
that oP goat iv Lying Chang ar-round,'
he says. 'Ivry time come in here with me
frind tn Rooshian l find him holdin' skein
iv yarn FIR ye, he says. "Tis ondacint.'
he says, AN all tn neghbors is talkn'
about it, he says. Th' OF lady didn't like
this none too well, f'r she was good deal
iv an OIL spoort, an she'd known Lying
Chang FIR nanny years. Her husband knew
him whin he was at tn pipe facthry an
didn't have a shirt to his back. But she
TURNED Lying Chang away. 'Misther
Chang says she, Il think ye'd betther not
is a little par-tickler, an whin womans
as old as l am she has to look out f'r her
good name if she has wan left she says.
An Lying Chang had to spend his avenins
down the sthreet playin bung-loo.
"Rut it cudden't last all tn time. Tn
OF lady was riled. There was no place in
tn house f'r her. Twas Nav, ye ought'nt
to come into tn parlor with ye'er hair in
, l.,
ye larn some other chune besides MAN.
choorya, me happy home!' till she stayed
in her room at nights maxim tides. An
tn Fr-rinch nmbass'dure an tn English
ambass dure, an tn Rooshian ambass' dure
was in tn parlor ivry night shakin' dice
with tn kid an winning his provinces an
now an thin 'agoin to tn flure in a fight an
breakin' tn furniture.
"She shtud it as long as she cud, but, as
Hogan says Shakespeare says, what is 80
tough as woman that's been thrated bad.
She heerd rumors iv the carryins on iv her
son, but she says, 'Packy is,a good boy. He's
young, an he has to SOW his wild OATS
An whin people come to her an tof her
iv his doin's she cut thin off short. But
wan night she heerd an unsteady hand at
the keyhole, an she wint down with tn
rocky. Son. she says, 4 didn't believe it,
she says. 'Whin they tor me ye'd give
prize FIR tn best composition on good gov
ernmint,' she says, L tor them they lied,'
she says. 'Whin they said We had allowed
newspapers to be published turned them
firm me dure. But now, alas! know tits
too thrue Yer flushed face and r-round
feet tells me- she says, that our family
has been disgraced. Look me- she says,
'in tn face an say ye're not rayformer,'
she says. 'Maw,' says tn impror. i can
not lie to ye,' he says. i admit he says,
that met some frinds,' he says, AN we
may've had q speech too much he says
Don't tell me- she says. 'Ye've been Sc
cretly rayformin' FIR months, she says.
Oh she says, that should live to see this
day.' she says. 'Th' Hi vi family is dis
graced before tn wurruld,' she says. Yer
father, lastewise me husband, was as good
man as iver lived FIR sixty year he tiled
an scraped. He stuffed ballot boxes an
took money to git people on tn polls force,
an died Chinnyman,' she says. n he :
knowed his adopted son had TURNED out
rayformer he'd lave his grave this minyit.
Dut.' she says, they'll be an end to this
crime she saws. 'Th' furniture is in me
name,' she says, AN I'm the boss OF this
house, she says. I'll degradeLYe,6 she says.
'lll take away yer job she says Hence
forth; she says, tn bills iv this establish
ment,, she says, will be made out in the
name iv Mary Ann Hi vi, she says, an if
amy iv yer low, besotted rayform frinds
comes to tn dure I'll give him tn hard end
iv fatir'n,' she says. If We want to indulge
yer vile taste FIR rayform, she says. vel!
earn tn money be tn sweat of yer brow,
she says. Oh, she was that mad!
"Well, things is changed now. Tn Of
woman is behind the cash drawher, an l
see be the pa-apers that Lying Chang is
hanging his yellow jacket an his peacock
feather on tn hatrack, his boots is undher
tn pianny, an him an tn impress sets be
tn hour takin' over tn times whin Chinny
was a howlin' desert an oil settlers shot
wolves in tn main sthreet iv Pekin. Th'
other night he wint out an thrun tn Eng
lish embass' dure firm tn fr-ront stoop."
"Where's Paclxy?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
"Hes learnin' shorthand" said Mr.. Doo-
lev. "Tbey've got him tanned. A young
man ought to be kind to his parents. If
he amt, they're i'ble to do him."-Copy-
right, 1893, Chicago Journal.
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