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Identifier: chinatownballads00irwi (find matches)
Title: Chinatown ballads
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959
Subjects: Chinese Americans
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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brain—But the Chinee ghosts is out, and I seen er,seen er plain! Twas a shadder? Yes, perhaps. I haveorfen seen em so. And the little one that passed was the shad-der of Yut Ho, Her that was a Christian slave, daughter ofthe merchant, Kwan, 21 YUT HO Sam Yup boss, who ruled the roost till he dropped is wealth at fan.Died In pious peace and left is fat widow fer to payFer cold storage on is bones wen they shipped the box awayTo be planted in the tombs were is dads and granddads lay. Now the mother, Luey Sing, wit er little porky eyesFiggered up the girl, Yut Ho, as a piece o merchandise,Thinkin how the cash on hand to be netted on the sameWould pay off the honest debts Kwan had left behind the game.So she made a sing-song talk wit the dealer, Wong Tin Gay,Till he promised on is joss he would call around next dayWit a tousand dollars cash, jest to take the girl away. Yut Ho, squattin In er room, seen the dealer come, and heardAll the chin-chin down below—understood it every word; 22
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Found a ladder io the ground wereshe glided down, then fleet As a bird she sought the door <? theMission up the Street- YUT HO And she gathered what she owned in a green silk handkerchief,Raised the skylight of er room and crept quiet as a thiefTrough the frame, along the tiles, cross the roof wit padded feet.Found a ladder to the ground were she glided down, then fleetAs a bird she sought the door o* the Mission up the street. So the Mission Lady came and she found er at the doorBobbin like a jinted doll till er saam sleeves touched the floor,Sayin over as she dipped, like a lesson, very slow.All the English words she knew: Melly Clistmas—me Yut Ho.Then her green silk handkerchief she untied and brought to viewWhat she owned: a ring o jade and a pitcher fer sam shu,And a little candy heart stamped in English, I Love You. Well, the Lady understood and the Missiontook er in; 23 TTUT HO But the mother, Luey Sing, bein* old in yearsand sin, Vowed to git er daughter back, even if she

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