A CANDID CHINAMAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 979, 17 September 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CANDID CHINAMAN.

\ certain fashionable lady in San Francisco, whose lovely daughters are regarded as the most elegant belles of the city, having become disgusted with the arrogance, lies and neglect of the “ colored gemmen ” who deigned to wait upon them, suddenly discharged that personage and employed a Celestial, who had been strongly recommended to her for his strict attention to his duties and perfect truthfulness. Soon after his installation his mistress determined to give an informal “ hop,” and on the afternoon of the day on which the party was to take place told Lung to say, “ Not at home ” to anyone who called. As chance would have it, one of the young ladies’ most fastidious beaux, and one on whom they all wished to make a favorable impression, came to ask permission to bring a friend with him in the evening and on .inquiring for the ladies was told by the truthful Lung, “ They tell me say all gone out ; but old woman she in kitchen washee dishee, the young misses they upstairs paintee facee.” It is needless to say that the yoiing man did not put in his appearance that evening, and the truthful Lung is seeking another situation.