So between his yells and the heathen's jabber and grunts the hullabaloo was worse than a cat in a hen yard.

Folks begun to stop outside the door and listen and grin.
"'What did he say ?' asks the Cap'n, turnin' to me.
"'I don't know,' says I, 'but I cal'late he's gettin' ready to send a note up to the crazy asylum.

Come on out of here afore I go loony myself.' "So he done it, finally, cross as all get out, and swearin' that all Chinese was no good and oughtn't to be allowed in this country.

But he wouldn't give up, not yet.

He must scare up some of the neighbors and ask them.