The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-09

u.akeo me alice samee biz iikoe YOU
SELF
why an 7 an right" asked Horace.
I wlde awake now ard sitting up la BED.
You duh teller. You no tellee De. Put
hands on my shoulder and tel.ce me glow
/ blg Ike you
Horace was not a headlonr boy, and he
waited minute before answering. bat on
reflection be saw no reason why he
should not make the Chinaman big II he
I wanted 10 become so. he could easily
I make him Emal. again Il he wanted 10
But u Horace had bat known that the
I little Chinese image taat for two years,
! ever since Capt. Slaytcr had brought him
/ from Hong Kong had stood on the mantel
] piece was a wizard. and a wicked one a.
/ that he would never have laid hands on
Z him.
/ But Horace was ignorant Of this. and
I being a healthy boy with plenty Of curl
/ osity. he laid his hands on the little man.
/ he had seen bat one Chinaman 10 his life.
laundryman az Neriden. 10 he said,
Grow big like An Lee ard me"
! Slowly. slowly, that IL 20 say. about a
/ hundred times as fast as the fastest
/ climbing vine grows the little Ch.nauan
I Increased 10 stature until he was four
/ feet six or just the hight Of Horace.
Horance had thought he would do some
I thing. sing a SONG or do some tricks but
| he merely curled himself up on the rag
| carpet and went 10 sleep and Horace inn
I meIlately followed his example and slept
I until daybrcak.
! When the boy awoke Il was daylight ana
| The Cmnaman was gone. Horace glanced
az tho mantel, half expecting 60 see the
familiar figure there. but rs place looked
/ lonely the image was gone.
! Horce's father aud mother were viz
tng friends Ia Boston and his sister Kitty
was keeping house aided by Horace 3
] big brother sam He could hear Kitty
! stirring in tho kitchen and sam was evi-
IDENTIFY out milking for he could hear the
/ COWS towing in the barn as they always
/ did when sam MIXED because ne took 80
| long to d. 81 that they got tired OF walt
/ ing. But what a strange noise Kitty was
making She was singing 10 a queer high
/ pitched up-andtiowny voice that was
/ anything but downy.
Ching a llne a ling ting what Kitty
! makee
Ching. ching ching. buckwheat cakee.
Kitty had always been a great hand for
/ singing al her work but her voice was
/ sweet and the tunes she sang we're pretty
ones. This song somehow. reminded Hor-
ace Of the Chinaman. although the latter
/ had never sung.
Now has sister started new song.
Me eatee ginger FIRE crackers. mice.
Ne sit BY mouse hole cateheo little
mice.
"Holace Ike EN- tender. papa like EN-
fat
Ne like EN- anyway alice samee cat
Horace hurriedly dressed and nan down
stairs into the ki chen and there stood his
sister dressed ia Chinese garb from head
70 my 1907 and her pretty blue eyes were
slantwise In her head
I she Cluffered ecrnaa fhs a,er ,,,,.h -
l your baby sister did when she was learn
I ing 10 walk and said In strange. high
/ pitched voice:
Hello. Hoiace. You slcepee alice lightee7
Chinf ling ling ting. what kitty
makee7
chin- .ains a ching Ing. buckwheat
cakee."
As he spoke she poured the batter on TO
The grlddle
Horace was not pleased. His sister vas
a pretty slender girl whom no loved
| dearly and ne did not like 10 find that
she had been turned into a minclug Chi
. nese maiden or course. he knew az once
. that IL was tho wizards doing And no
was afraid that the wizard would change
every one Ia Pcrryville and perhaps Ia tn,
United States and then what woud he
I come OF the country
just then the door opened and Sam came
In. lie had long pigtail down his ba cis
| and wore the costume of a Chinese farmer
I which was an Insult the wizard had nut
/ upon him for he was a free and indie
pendent American. who expected to cast
his first vote that day. As soon ~ he
saw Horace he said in a sing-song voice.
why you not blessed allie samee llkee
/ me2"
"Oh don't sam Please be an Ameri-
can ! didn't know that horrid viva "a
would do anything so mean or / wouldn't
have made him big
"Nicc pafoda. said Kitty. looking out
Of the window ia che direction Of the Con
I grerational church whose pretty Colonial
/ suiIe had pcirted tho way 10 heaven these
hundred wears To Hoace's horror there
stood Chinese temple with little tiukhnR
bells strung along the edges OF It's many
. reefs.
II was Tuesday and the hoy heard the
. sound % a horses hoofs on the bridge
that lay south OF the house. He ran from
the kitchen 20 gee II u was a ncighbor
who could help him restore his brother
and sister 90 their Amerlcanhood IL was
nclrhbor. ueighbor lakewood he could
tell % by The horse but alas neighbour
/ lakewood himself was Chinese
/ "Oh Mir lakewood come IN and help
me- ! don't want Chinese relatives"
/ n was election day and Mr.. JackwooA