"THAT RASCAL OF A HEATHEN CHINEE."

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2286, 30 July 1881, Page 3

"THAT RASCAL OF A HEATHEN CHINEE."

The plump little Celestial, his almond eyes twinkling with delight, and au extraordinary grin lighting up hie yellow countenance, dropped in to witness the lottery-drawing the other day. Ho watched the blind-folded boys draw the numbers from the wheel with apparent interest, and bore the jokes of the crowd around with evident good nature. • John, you washee that man's shirtee !' asked one of the crowd, pointing to one of the benevolent-looking commissioners. ' I washee heapee plenty Bhirtee if I winnee plize,' replied the bland Mongolian. ' Have you got a ticket, John ? ' inquired the man in the crowd. ' Well, me thinkee me habee,' replied the Chinaman, drawing one from his pocket ; tlinkee win ? ' he inquired. The man in the crowd looked at the number and scanning the list, found that it had come in forasoodo'. prize. 'Well, John,' replitd the m»n in the crowd, very innocently, ' I think [you'vo lost ' China man losee allee timej' said the subject of the Flowery Empire, * glotee no luckee ; gless tlow tlickeo away.' 'You needn't do that, John,' Baid the man, with a patronising air ; ' I'd give you a dime for it.' ' Dlimo too litlee. Glimme a dollar,' said the Celestial. ' A dollar's too much for a ticket that can't win. We'll split the difference, and call it half-a-dollar, eh ?' sold John's kind informant. 'Chinee man glotee not luckee. Melican man takeo all monee. Takee the tliokee and glimme no' bittee (50 cent.),' and John passed over his ticket in exchange for the money. When the mongolian's g'inning features had disappeared the man chuckled and remarked that he had ' got her this time.' ' Let's seo tbe ticket,' said one of hiß friends. The man who had made the luckv investment handed the ticket over, when his fsiend exclaimed—' Why, George, it was drawn last June?' 'ls that so?' asked the man, dumfounded, the revelation that he had been duped dawning upon him ; ' where is that lying rascal of a heathen Chinee who put up this job on me V —" New Orleans Picayune,"