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grand luxurianceā€“ā€“palms, tree-ferns, banian trees, everything I used to wonder over in my old gography I see right here growinā€™ free. Tommy wuz delighted with the strange, beautiful flowers, so unlike anything he had ever seen before. We had got out and walked round a spell here, and when we went to git into our sedan chairs agin, I wuz a little behind time, and Josiah hollered out to me:

ā€œFey tea, Samantha!ā€

ā€œTea?ā€ sez I. ā€œI hainā€™t got any tea here.ā€ And I sez with dignity, ā€œI donā€™t know what you mean.ā€

ā€œFey tea,ā€ he sez agin, lookinā€™ clost at me.

And I sez agin with dignity, ā€œI donā€™t know what you mean.ā€ And he sez to me: ā€œI am talkinā€™ Chinese, Samantha; that means ā€˜hurry up.ā€™ I shall use that in Jonesville. When youā€™re standinā€™ in the meetinā€™ house door talkinā€™ about bask patterns and hired girls with the female sisters, and I waitinā€™ in the democrat, I shall holler out, ā€˜Fie tea, Samantha;ā€™ it will be very stylish and uneek.ā€

I didnā€™t argy with him, but got in well as I could, but havinā€™ stepped on my dress and most tore it, Josiah hollered out, ā€œSee sum! see sum! Samantha!ā€

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And I, forgittinā€™ his fashionable aims, sez to him, ā€œSee some what, Josiah?ā€

ā€œSee sum, Samantha. That means ā€˜be careful.ā€™ I shall use that too in Jonesville. How genteel that will make me appear to holler out to Brother Gowdey or Uncle Sime Bentley, in a muddy or slippery time, ā€˜See sum, Brother Gowdey; see sum, Uncle Sime!ā€™ Such doinā€™s will make me sought after, Samantha.ā€

ā€œWell,ā€ sez I, ā€œweā€™d better be gittinā€™ back to the tarven, for Arvilly will be wonderinā€™ where we are and the rest on ā€™em.ā€

ā€œWell, just as you say, Samantha,ā€ and he leaned back in his chair and waved his hand and says to the men, ā€œFey tea, fey tea; chop, chop.ā€

I expect to see trouble with that man in Jonesville streets with his foreign ways.

Well, we wuz passinā€™ through one of the narrer streets, through a perfect bedlam of strange cries in every strange language under the sun, so it seemed, and seeinā€™ every strange costoom that wuz ever wore, when, happy sight to Jonesville eyes, there dawned on my weary vision a brown linen skirt and bask, made from my own pattern.

Yes, there stood Arvilly conversinā€™ with a stately Sikh policeman. She held up the ā€œTwin Crimesā€ in a allurinā€™ way and wuz evidently rehearsinā€™ its noble qualities. But as he didnā€™t seem to understand a word she said she didnā€™t make a sale. But she wuz lookinā€™ round undanted for another subscriber when she ketched sight of us. And at my request we dismissed the jinrikishas and walked back to the tarven with her.

Dorothy and Miss Meechim and Robert Strong come back pretty soon from a tower of sight-seeinā€™, and they said weā€™d all been invited to tiffen with the Governor-General the next day. Well, I didnā€™t have the least idee what it wuz, but I made up my mind to once that if tiffeninā€™ wuz anything relatinā€™ to gamblinā€™ or the opium trade, I shouldnā€™t 168 have a thing to do with it. But Josiah spoke right up and sez he had rather see tiffen than anybody else in China, and mistrustinā€™ from Robertā€™s looks that he had made a mistake, he hastened to add that tiffeninā€™ wuz sunthinā€™ he had always hankered after; he had always wanted to tiffen, but hadnā€™t the means in Jonesville.

Sez Robert, ā€œThen I shall accept this invitation for breakfast for all our party.ā€ And after they went out I sez: ā€œIā€™d hold myself a little back, Josiah. To say that youā€™d never had means to take breakfast in Jonesville shows ignorance and casts a slur on me.ā€

ā€œOh, I meant I never had any tiffen with it, Samantha; youā€™ll see it donā€™t mean plain breakfast; youā€™ll see that theyā€™ll pass some tiffen, and we shall have to eat it no matter what itā€™s made on, rats or mice or anything. Whoever heard of common breakfast at twelve M.?ā€

Well, it did mean just breakfast, and we had a real good time. We went up in sedan chairs, though we might have gone on the cars. But we wanted to go slower to enjoy the scenery.

I had thought the view from the hill back of Grout Nicklesonā€™s wuz beautiful, and also the Pali at Honolulu, but it did seem to me that the seen we looked down on from the top of Victoria mountain wuz the most beautiful I ever did see. The city lay at our feet embowered in tropical foliage, with its handsome uneek buildinā€™s, its narrer windinā€™ streets stretchinā€™ fur up the mountain side, runninā€™ into narrerer mountain paths covered with white sand. The beautiful houses and gardens of the English colony clost down to the shore. The tall masts of the vessels in the harbor looking like a water forest with flowers of gayly colored flags. And further off the Canton or Pearl River, with scores of villages dotting its banks; glittering white temples, with their pinnacles glistening in the sunlight; pagodas, gayly painted with gilded bells, rising up from the beautiful tropical foliage; 169 broad green fields; mountains soarinā€™ up towards the blue heavens and the blue waters of the sea.

A fair seen, a fair seen! I wished that sister Henzy could see it, and told Josiah so.

And he sez with a satisfied look, ā€œWait till I describe it to ā€™em, Samantha. Theyā€™d ruther have me describe it to ā€™em than see it themselves.ā€ I doubted it some, but didnā€™t contend.

The breakfast wuz a good one, though I should have called it dinner to home. Josiah wuz on the lookout, I could see, for tiffen to be passed, but it wuznā€™t, so he ort to give up, but wouldnā€™t; but argyed with me out to one side that ā€œthey wuz out of tiffen, and hadnā€™t time to buy any and couldnā€™t borry.ā€

Well, the Governor-General seemed to be greatly taken with Dorothy. A relation on his own side wuz the hostess, and Miss Meechim acted real relieved when it turned out that he had a wife who wuz visiting in England.

I sot at the right hand of the Governor-General and I wanted to talk to him on the opium question and try to git him to give up the trade, but concluded that I wouldnā€™t tackle him at his own table. But I kepā€™ up a stiddy thinkinā€™.

That very morninā€™ I read in the daily paper that two missionaries had arrived there the day before, and on the same steamer three hundred chests of opium.

Poor creeters! didnā€™t it seem mockinā€™ the name of religion to help convert the natives and on the same steamer send three hundred chests of the drug to ondo their work and make idiots and fiends of ā€™em.

It seemed to me some as if I should read in the Jonesville ā€œAugurā€ or ā€œGimletā€ that our govermunt had sent out three or four fat lambs to help the starvinā€™ poor and sent ā€™em in the care of thirty or forty tigers and wild cats.

No doubt the lambs would git there, but they would be inside the wild cats and tigers.

Such wicked and foolish and inconsistent laws if made by 170 women would make talk amongst the male sect, and I wouldnā€™t blame ā€™em a mite; I should jine with ā€™em and say, ā€œSure enough it is a proof that wimmen donā€™t know enough to vote and hainā€™t good enough; let ā€™em drop the political pole, retire into the background and study statesmanship and the Bible, specially the golden rule.ā€ But to resoom.

Arvilly tried to turn the conversation on the ā€œTwin Crimesā€ of America, but didnā€™t come right out and canvass him, for which I wuz thankful. They all paid lots of attention to Tommy, who had a great time, and I spoze Carabi did too.

We had fruits and vegetables at the table, all gathered from the Governor-Generalā€™s gardenā€“ā€“fresh fruit and vegetables in February, good land! Pickinā€™ berries and pineapples while the Jonesvilliansā€™ fruit wuz snowballs and icesuckles; jest think onā€™t!

Well, Robert Strong thought we had better proceed on to Canton the next day and we wuz all agreeable to it.

After we all went back to the tarven and I had laid down a spell and rested, I went out with Arvilly and Tommy for a little walk, Miss Meechim, and Dorothy, and Robert Strong havinā€™ gone over to Maceo, the old Portuguese town on the mainland. They wanted to see the place where Camoens wrote his great poem, ā€œThe Lusiad,ā€ and where he writ them heart-breakinā€™ poems to Catarina. Poor creeters! they had to be separated. King John sent him off from Lisbon, wantinā€™ the girl himself, so I spoze. Catarina died soon of a broken heart, but Camoens lived on for thirty years in the body, and is livinā€™ now and will live on in the Real Life fer quite a spell.

Yes, his memory is jest as fresh now as it ever wuz in them streets he wandered in durinā€™ his sad exile, while the solid stun his feet trod on has mouldered and gone to pieces, which shows how much more real the onseen is than the seen, and how much more indestructible. Iron pillars and granite columns aginst which his weary head had leaned oft-times 171 had all mouldered and decayed. But the onseen visions that Camoens see with his rapt poetā€™s eye wuz jest as fresh and deathless as when he first writ ā€™em down. And his memory hanted the old streets, and went before ā€™em and over ā€™em. How much more real than the tropical birds that wheeled and glittered in the luxuriant tropical foliage, though they couldnā€™t lay hands on ā€™em and ketch ā€™em and bring a few to me, much as I would liked to have had ā€™em. But these beinā€™ the real, as I say, they wuz also with me way over in Hongkong. I thought a sight on him all the time they wuz gone, and afterwards I thought of the honor and dignity his noble verse had gin to his country, and how princely the income they had gin him after they let him return from his exile. Twenty-one dollars a year! What a premium that wuz upon poesy; the Muse must have felt giddy to think she wuz prized so high, and his native land repented of the generosity afterwards and stopped the twenty-one dollars a year.

But then after his starved and strugglinā€™ life wuz ended his country acted in the usual way, erected monuments in his honor, and struck off medals bearinā€™ his liniment. The worth of one medal or one little ornament on the peak of one of his statutes might have comforted the broken heart and kepā€™ alive the starved body and gin him some comfort. But that hainā€™t the way of the world; the world has always considered it genteel and fashionable to starve its poets, and stun its prophets, with different kinds of stuns, but all on ā€™em hard ones; not that it has done so in every case, but it has always been the fashionable way.

Dorothy and Robert talked quite a good deal about the sad poet and his works, their young hearts feelinā€™ for his woe; mebby sunthinā€™ in their own hearts translatinā€™ the mournful history; you know plates have to be fixed jest right or the colors wonā€™t strike in. It is jest so in life. Hearts must be ready to photograph the seens on, or they wonā€™t be took. Some hearts and souls are blank plates and will 172 always remain so. Arvilly seemed lost in thought as they talked about the poet (she hainā€™t so well versed in poetry as she is in the license laws and the disabilities of wimmen), and when she hearn Robert Strong say, ā€œCamoens will live forever,ā€ she sez dreamily:

ā€œI wonder if heā€™d want to subscribe for the ā€˜Twin Crimesā€™?ā€ And sez she, ā€œI am sorry I didnā€™t go over with you and canvass him.ā€ Poor thing! she little knew he had got beyend canvassinā€™ and all other cares and troubles of life two hundred years ago. But Miss Meechim wuz dretful worked up about the gambling going on at Maceo, and she sez it is as bad as at Monte Carlo. (I didnā€™t know who he wuz, but spozed that he wuz a real out and out gambler and blackleg). And sez she, ā€œOh, how bad it makes me feel to see such wickedness carried on. How it makes my heart yearn for my own dear America!ā€ Miss Meechim is good in some things; she is as loyal to her own country as a dog to a root, but Arvilly sez:

ā€œI guess we Americans hadnā€™t better find too much fault with foreign natives about gambling, when we think of our stock exchanges, huge gamblinā€™ houses where millions are gambled for daily; thousands of bushels of

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