The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-22
The Household Devil
of Sam Louie
BY E. SPENCE DE PUE
Copyright, by Joseph b. Bowles.,


Chinese, but a part of both When it
was directly behind the Chinese boy it
shot out its hands and clapped them
tightly over the others eyes, and cried
in a merry voice:
"Who?"
Ming Foo, of course" was the
| prompt response.
/ They CURED themselves comfortably
| on the grass, near the edge Of the
gravel path, content as two young ami
| mails
Here comes Sam Louie, cried Ming
Foo. suddenly; hes going to stop"
"9o, little rascals, do you have
naught to do but idle?" asked Sam
Louie affahly, as he paused moment.
Nothing, honorable friend, but to
idle and tell stories"
We'll, if that be all, let this add to
the Pleasures of thy idleness; CATCH"
Cutting off a generous piece of sugar
cane from one Of the sticks he carried.
he tossed it into the air and passed
on.
For the time all else was forgotten
in the pieasurable crunch of teeth upon
the spcculent cane. Forgotten till
Fat, sleek Chinaman, in American ap- |
parel and another Chinaman, with |
great red scar across his cheek, passed |
by, and word or so foated to the al
ways wide-open ears of Ming Foo.
Understand? There ought to be
about three thousand dollars, and you
must get every cent Of" That was
all, nut it was enough to arrest pair
Of stout young jaws midway in the act
of sending set OF white teeth into the
Juicy wood Enough to cause Ming Foo
10 stare wonderingly after the retreat
ing pair, and note that they settled
themselves on a bench and that they !
we're joined by third Chinaman
In the last arrival Ming Foo recog-
lized hatchetman of the Ping Kong 7
ong. His eyes danced joyously, and
his stumpy piece of cane
within his blouse, he pulled Quong
4fng's car down close to his lips, whis-
erred something, then scampered OFF
nd left the smaller boy wondering
hey disappeared around corner
Quone Ling's patience had become
lmost exhausted when one of the
lree men on the bench wandered off;
l another moment the other two part
d. going in opposite directions; and,
$ he held his gaze on the empty
ench, ne saw battered cap and
ose-croppei head rise from the low
lrubbery just behind it.
"Oh, Quong Ling, Quong Ling, v
a-ling-a-ling, he sang, dancing !
round on the tips of his toes. Big, i
gge5t thing ever Ell? We're goin TO Z
} a big thing tonight. Come long 2
it'll me and I'll tell you all about it,"
Then, with many gesticuations and K
and swellings of the chest &
ing Foo told what he had heard as :
lay in the shrubbery How, on this :
ght, the store Of Now Gum, for whom
m Louie worked, was TO be robbed
at il was to punish the proprietor for
ring to cross the Ratchet MANN
ring to refuse to bear false witness -
some matter before the police, as
I'll as TO gain the money. That there
re things and mysteries back of this 'i'
hat it had to do with the tongs. and
ch more. So that in the end, Quong ",
ne quivereG with the mystery and 80
'ifement of it. aud Ming Foo, strik- :"
, his robust little chest fairly 'o'
sed mn
Amt II big? Amt we goin to ston 'o'
amt we roin L do more than big 'e'
7ctiyos would?" '"l
yhcn the smaller Adventures asked
ow9" Ming Foo grew in stature as u
exclaimed:
Never mind, You come with me. III AM
W you, I'm white" 4
'ossihly il was owing 10 that little
'lN Of white in him that the follow ma
things happened. He was only II, ~
NJ knew very much. and Quong
z was his devoted admirer sur
here was no place in the quarter OF ~ ~
en- MINI Foo did not have tho run. "lI
ny opium Joint was to him a home .
d place 10 lay his head: every -
nslop was his museum. AMI he I'm
ter was his especial place OF pat ''ii
zee. so that it was with no difficult p'"
hat he gained for himself and f,l- '' ",
n admission to this place of amus,- -
{. He strutted across the stage and m
b. dressing room behind and go. ii'''
copies way. and bullied the actors. ~
finally disappeared IN the depths =.
sore
- -. all
= ,,-- ''''A9 Quo
: % swords. miniature paeodas. -
1os and ancient armor. they - -
lldis'urbed, and Ming Foo pulled -.
hauled the things about until final
! found these articles he should ~
not great deal 2 panier marhe -
a. hisequs design and ertrao-di- -.
proportions and few yards of -.
W silk. Nor was the removal Of -,
things without detection in fhe -
est degree difficult nor beyond his IRA
rces
b LeXt thing was surreDtitiousls I.iue
isess themselves 81 bunk in she the 4
81 Now Gum store without she d.,c.
ledge OF sam Louie. This also was and 9
ipiishei. ihoue1 barely before the 10,
Pr were But M for ne night 30 +1r