THE CHRISTIAN CHINEE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 235, 1 August 1872, Page 5

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 T 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 be pleased With his master's sycee, And on Sundays he got 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 j 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 1 missed j I then with my nose Struck him hard on the fist, When not wishing to punish him further, 1 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.