6/16 "I should have thought that a man of your years would have known better than to help torment this poor Chinaman." "Not velly poor," he whispered. Plenty plize-money now." "Didn't have nought to do with it," growled Tom Jecks. I was caulking till they wakened me wi' laughing." "But you saw it done ?" "No, sir; it was all done aforehand. They'd turned his tail into a bull-roarer, and if you was to swing it round now like a windmill, it would make no end of a row." "Silence, sir," I cried. |