Cats and Chinamen.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3, 17 July 1912, Page 62

Cats and Chinamen.

The only one of the lower animals Van Oliver's do not eat is eat. It seems that it is not, as you might think, la'cause the cat is a somewhat unpalatable animal. It is the character of the cat that i« objected to. The whole cat tribe is corned by the hungriest Chinaman. Buey Gon, the meatseller, answered thus: “Vo assa me vay men nee ipieshuns 'bout meat in dissa shop, lika. dis, lika dat. I dniwa yo. I tay yo. No eat Mat. Dissa cat jnssa svinma lika tiger. *’ And old Buey, with a gesture expressive' of extreme ennui, turned away to serve a customer who immediately started to bargain in chromatic! Uantomse. haggling about the price of a 1.. C puj iy. Bue\ sells a special speciefi ci | ips. bred and fattened by himself, and he docs a good business. It was neon in < hinatown, ami the street was filled with savoury vapours from Chinese look pate. As a setting for these ciiJiniu\ smells the atmospht'it* was heavy with the fluent odours of incense, joss “li -k. opium, and wood smoke.—From the B.( . “Saturday 'Sunset.'’