THE CHRISTIAN CHINEE.
From a comic contemporary published at Shanghai, the following jeu d esprit is extracted : Which his name was Achoy Of v horn I now speak; I engaged him as a boy, Because he looked meek, And because I imagined a Christian Was cheap at three dollars a week. Oh ! wasn't I squeezed By that Christian Chinee ! He did just what he pleased With his master’s sycee, And on Sundays ho gob absolution For the sins he committed on me, But one day last week Coming home rather soon I heard a loud squeak, Like a pig out of tune, Or a song of a Cantonese maiden, Or a cat serenading the moon. So I crept up the stair Without any noise, And sure enough, there Was the meekest of boys Carousing with two native damsels Who, he said, were the Mrs Achoys. From the sight of my rooms I instinctively shrunk ; For the opium fumes Would have stifled a skunk, And the Christian Chinee was in liquor, And the wives of the Christian were drunk. I was roused into blows, And I hit but I missed ; I then witli my nose Struck him hard on the fist, When not wishing to punish him further, I thought it well to desist. But the very next day That Christian so meek Had me up right away To the Deputy Beak, Who remarked that my conduct was cruel, And sent me to quod for a week.
A letter from a Government doctor in Palmerston (Manawatu, Province of Wellington) has been placed under our notice. The Medical Officer thus describes the burial of a person who had died from fever, at Palmerston, on the 10th inst. : “He was buried on Saturday, and when they lowered the coffin into the grave it floated about in two feet of water, and had to be held down wit}* sticks while they were filling in the earth, but it could not be helped, the ground is so flat and saturated with water.” A nice place Palmerston must be from this description.
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Evening Star, Issue 2942, 24 July 1872, Page 4
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346THE CHRISTIAN CHINEE. Evening Star, Issue 2942, 24 July 1872, Page 4
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