The book Manila And the Philippines was written by author Margherita Arlina Hamm Here you can read free online of Manila And the Philippines book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Manila And the Philippines a good or bad book?
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In this respect they are very much like their next door neighbors, the Chinese lower classes. The author had a friend at Amoy, China, who had a very faithful and efficient servant. One day the latter came to his master weeping and asked permission to leave him for two days, as his mother was dead. The permission 136 MANILA AND THE PHILIPPINES.' vraa given without hesitation. The next year, to the master's surprise, there was the same request, with simi- lar weeping. He said nothing, but gave th...e servant the desired leave of absence. This went on for four years, until the master grew tired. On the last occasion he looked at the servant and said sharply: "What do you mean? Your mother died last year and the year before that. She's died regularly for five years past." The servant nodded his head in acquiescence, and replied : "Tas, master, the same old dead." Their moral code has many odd features. They rarely steal, and even when they do steal it is to gratify some pressing want, yet even here they do not seem to differentiate between one kind of want and another.
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