The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02

Then, ah, it's all of my life like
to think about. It wasn't but two next
years, three years. My husband got
sick and didn't get any better, and then
he died. I didn't have anything but
just myself, and I had to live. and 1
could not live on nothing. No. 1 had
to have things, so 1 got a little house:
you know one with a little window
over the door.
Then pretty soon 1 went back to
China. but I did not go to my own
village. No, my parents would not
want to see me. I went to Hongkong
and 1 bought three girls. Two of them
are dead, but All Moy. that's All Moy,
she was a baby, and I paid her father
80 cents for her. After 1 had returned
here few months 1 went back to China
again. I wanted to see my village. al
ways I wanted to go back to my home.
So 1 went but I didn't let anybody
know I was there / went to the place
where they put the babies to die.
There was a baby there. A little bit
of a brown baby, and she didn't look
much good anyway. But I wanted
some one from my own village. and so
I took the baby, and she is All Lung.
Don't you think she is a pretty girl
now? She's not a slave YOU know.
She's a good girl, just the same as
white girls. She comes from Shantung.
so I say she shall never be like the
others. Slave girls most all die soon.
It's bad, yes, and only the girls who
want to be good and the dear Jesus
knows about that. You see she is a
girl and her people sold her. so what
can she do?
That trip I brought home four girls
besides All Lucy You see it was not
hard to smuggle the girls into this
country then. You can't do it so easy
now. Sometimes they come. only some
times now. You see the Hop Sing tong
fix it with the Custom House. They
swore to the officers that the children
were born here and went to China to
visit. Some witnesses come and they
say they knew the girl who wants to
land was born here, and they tell all
about it. Then they say they know she
is the same because they saw her
when they went back to China. It was
not hard to swear them into this coun-
try.
Then I went back once more. That
was only a year ago and I brought
back six girls. They did not seem to be
with me when We got to the landing.
but I watched them. l made the girls
learn the answers to the questions the
highbinders said would be asked by the
Custom House. I told the girls If they
made any mistakes the white devils
would get them. I said white men
liked to eat China girls, they like to
boil them and then hang them up to
dry and then eat them.
"Oh, the girls didn't make any mis-
takes when the inspector asked them
questions and when they were landed
they didn't want to run away. 1 told
them that the girls only stayed at the
missions till they got very fat and then
Miss Cameron ard Miss Lake sold them.
Oh, was bad-wasn't l bad? But 1
love Jesus now
"One girl sold to Loo Wing. All the
other girls are here now. 1 will not
make them bad any more. They are all
free-they may go or they may stay.
but I watch where they go. HON Get,
she is going to China. I bought her in
Hongkong. You want to talk to her?"
I said did. and HON Get smiled her
eyes out of sight and came in with
funny little Chinese swing of her trou-
sered legs. She seated herself as all
Orientals do, cross-legged.
ooh, yes indeed, I'm going home"
she said, through the interpreter. I'm
going back to my own home. My father
didn't sell me; he would not do it. He
just wrote letter to me. You want to
see it? My father he loves me and he
doesn't forget ! was stolen. You see
my father he quarreled with a man.
The man wanted to do him harm. So
this wicked man he got another man
who knew my father and who lived in
Hongkong to write me to visit his fam
lily Ny father didn't know his enemy
was doing anything and he let me 20.
Then the man took me down town and
lost me so my fathers enemy could find
me.
Then my fathers enemy sold me to
Suey Hin and she brought me here.
my father did not know where I
was till the white teachers wrote to him
in China. The teachers said I was
freed because Suey Hin loved Jesus
Then my father wrote this letter and he
sent $40. Isn't that such a lot of money?
Don't you think my father loves me?
And I'm going home and I will see my
sister and I'll see my two brothers, but
/, oh, don't know, you see I'm not like
all the other girls at home now. / love
Jesus, yes, but then. You want to
see the letter my father wrote?''
While we were talking there was the
hustle and chatter of some one coming
in. Suey Hin called out and Man Get,
All Ho and All Chung came into the
room. We shook hands all around and