A good story is told about Mr Rudyard Kippling, who is inclined to pride himself on his linguistic attainments. It happened one day in the streets of Vermont that he accosted an old Chinaman, and began to converse with him in his native tongue to the amazement of the Celestial and several byestanders. The old man nodded his head, and when the "jungle journalist " had finished ho closed his almond eyes and remarked blnndlv, " Mc no swaky English."
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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 11 December 1894, Page 4
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78Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 11 December 1894, Page 4
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