A CAUTIOUS CHINAMAN.
An Englishman who was appointed to on important post in China got married soon after. Among the recipients of the usual little card boxes containing a piece of wedding cuke was a Chinese merchant with whom the bridegroom had an outstanding account lor goods supplied. After the honeymoon one of the first persons the newly-wedded husband met was his Celestial creditor. "And how did you like the cake ?” said the Englishman, laughing, after the usual congratulations. "Ah, ha,” returned the Chinaman, with a cunning leer, "me no such hig fool to eat him, Bah. Me put cakee in Arc. Burn him up. He ! he “Oh. that’s too bad,” said the Englishman, very much hurt. "You might have tasted it at least, out of compliment to nty wife and myself. Why didn't you ?" "Ate too cute, sah,” said the Celestial!, with the same winning smile. "You owe me monee, sah; sendee poison cakee ; I eat him ; I die ; you no payee up. Houpla ! He ! he ! he ! I know you Ingleesh.”
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 8
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172A CAUTIOUS CHINAMAN. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 8
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