The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 143: what you’re looking at

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TRE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 137 The fellow’ is a man parrot and*can sing but one tune. cl In -vain' Perry twists his words around to form new and enticing traps; the chap ‘continues to repeat the game old refrain, and at last our Englishman is forced to give it up asa hopeless task. === = + All the while‘ he has been keeping his eyes on the _ alert in the hopes of’discovering signs of ‘Pekoe. Tay*or the red piper. | oa In a measure he is successful fopandine both, for while the Chinaman bobs up serenely near the rear of the inn, where. he has been watching~a native make butter,:or doukh, as it is -called—the milk being swung to and: fro in a 8kin bag, and at night-time, possibly on account of the coclness—the faint strains of Sandy’s bagpipes being softly played, pianissimo as it were, betrays the presence of the braw Highlander near by. Pokoe:Tay seems to have the peculiar faculty of keep- ing one eye glued upon his beloved master at all. times, so thatthe only thing. necessary to insure e his presence is for Terry to make a simple gesture. - When the messenger. hears the Englishman. says *‘Lead on—I. will follow,’’ he makes alow. salaam, per- haps. the better to conceal the grin of satisfaction that comes upon his ugly-ecountenance: ' _% . “The beggar understands English’ at least, even if he comicbooks.com