HE CALLED HER SAM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 160, 12 July 1906, Page 1

HE CALLED HER SAM.

A lady wrote recently ??i the Empire Review—Chinamen are very liicya), as nirite people find when they have to train them. A lady who had quite a raw Chiu.ese " boy," wished to teach him how to answer the door to after-

noon callers. She

ivrnt through

I the ceremony with him. eanie to the \ dopr herself, rang the bsll, toid the " boy" to ask her name, and then made him -."Jipw her into the drawingroom. He ie;u-«i- very quickly; but his mistreys thought tchf* had better make sure he understood, st* twi« afternoon, soon after going" out, she eajiie back to he]1 house, and rang the bell. I The "boy" appeared very promptly, and fj.skecl her m, and all went as it should. A few days afterwards, when the lady was upstairs changing her dress, she heard the door bell ring and ring again. No "boy" went t.O answer it. The lady called and called in vain. At last .feeling much annoyed, she finished her toilet, and answered the bell herseli'. There on the

doorstep was Master Sing, who, with a broad grin, remarked:—"You heap fooley me, I heap fooley you!" A rather proud, domineering woman engaged a Chinaman to do her work. "What's your name?" she asked, " Tai Chong Wong," he replied, " Much too long. I shall call you John." "What is your name?" said the imperturbable Chinaman, addressing the lady. "Mrs Carruthers Jones," she answered. "Heap too long. I think I call you Sam."