The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
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MULCAHEY AND All SIN.
A Discussion That Included Some IL
Illuminating Comparisons.

a DISCUSSION mat included Some L.
Illuminating Comparisons.
All Sin was ironing collars when Null
cahey walked into the laundry. The two
other coolies were busy, too, so none
says the New York Commercial Ad-
aAh. there, SIM" said Mulcahey.
eheerfully. rs it all coming out in the
wash?'
The Cinnamon thumDed with their
irons Just as if they were alone Null
cahey grinned- He knew his friend All
Sin ''veliy WE'LL" as he often told the
laundrYran.
Yer manners is insultin',' said Null
cahey, "but I'll forgive We them What
/ draw the line at meself,' however" he
added, as he sat on the ironing board,
lis the terrible cruelties We be afther
practicin in the old country l used to
tell We We know. that | thought yer
motherea greed with me about your ugly
mug when she called be by bad names
at birth, but now / see by the papers
that she knew what she was talkin'
about and picked out yer name fer We
with mothers sorrowful sense of dec
ency. All Sin. Say, is Sin a common
name in the old country"
All Sin bent over his bowl sucked in
the water till his cheeks bulged, then he
blew it in the form of mist on the col
lars before him.
ALE same Mulcahey." he said, and
he thumped collar and ironed it, No
smile iightened his countenance, no
twinkle frightened his eye.
That's what 1 thought" said Null
cahey, "only it ought to be as common
as Smith. But have We heard the news?
A Oh
know a monk had de nerve to put up
his fist. Guess these pugilists must be
from different part of China than the
kind yer country sends over here to
represent her in the land Of the free
and all that. Nit"
The three coolies ironed
Say, Sin, amt that right? Amt the
Boxers different from you and them pr
Mulcahey nodded with his chin at
the two other laundrymen. All Sin drew
in more water, blew il out and pressed
a collar ready for the iron, but he left
the hot thing on the little stand and
turned to Muleahey
him Boxer no good man. You sab
bee? Ale same Mclean tough ALE
same Ilish boy; no good"
This was solemnly said, and, once
spoken, the man proceeded to lay the
collar even.
IF yer said that ter me wit one f1ut-
ter of either wan O. them two shaved
eyelids on yer dirty yeller face I'd
break yer head. See?'' said Mulcahey.
Or if l fought fer wan fatal mint
that he had it in the insides O. yer
peeled nut o. head to be afther givin'
me steer, I'd wreck yer place O. bust
ness. That's wat I'd do. But vindi-
cate We. All Sin, me boy, from any
allecuSationS of intelligence, though /
do dream sometimes in me sleep that
yer on
Mulcahey studied his friend Sin for a
minute or two. He wondered. But inno-
cence was plainly written on the cOun-
I tenance of the Chinamdn. All Sin spoke
in the pause to his associate, in Chi
nese, and Mulcahey watched them to
see if they smiled or winked, but they
didn't even look at each other or at
All Sin. One of them answered and
all of them ironed damp linen.
Say" said Mulcahey, treasured, 1.-The
papers say that China is rotten coun-
try-nO dacint religion, no dacint army
and that us whites is got to get in
there to civilize We up a bit. Is that
straight"
All Sin made no comment, although
Nulcahey waited.
They say said the white man, that
yer corrupt and un-Christian govern
ment an that we got ter reform We
Everything is brides and that yer kings
take tips like a waiter. and that yer
in bad way generally. How about
that?"
All Sin took back to his red hot stove
the iron he had been using and he wet
his finger to test the other irons chOoS-
ing one. Before he seized it, however,
he answered Mulcahey.
'Pekin belly bad. Pekin ale same
Washington. Pekin allie same New
York. Calcium Tammany New York.
Pekin catchum Tammany, too. You
sable? Tammany, him velly bad. Tam
many man velly bad. New York heap
good. You sable me? Tammany him
not New York. Him Ilish. ALE samee
Pekin. Pekin catchee Tammany. Nell
can man him catchee Tammany man.
send him Tammany man, Pekin; fixem
Pekin- Maybe; maybe not. Me no know
Maybe Mclean better than China May
be not. No can tell"
Mulcahey studied the blank face of
his laundryman for awhile, then gave
him up.
Say, here's my wash. And say he
said, don't you shove no more buttons
off, or I'll take yer fer a Boxer and do
We up in one round. I got a good mind
10 90 II anyway don DelleVe any
man could be so stupid as you look, All
Sin, but as you say yourself, maybe,
maybe not But if 1 thought"
Mulcahey went out and the ironing
proceeded without remark, as Mulca-
hey knew, for he peeped through the
blinds. watching to see if the China
men spoke, or smiled. or exchanged
glances. They didn't. They caught Null
cahey peeping once before, long ago,
and they never spoke to him about it,