The House That Jack Built a Remarkable Temperance Story of Shanghai
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" Thanking him and bidding him adieu, I returned to my house in much the same spirit as the proverbial drowning man clutching at a straw. I called Ah Mow and instructed him to ac- company me in search of new quarters, and in no less than half an hour we discovered three, small vacant Chinese houses on Boone Road, just below Seward Road. Ah Mow rented the three dwell- ings, the rent being $15 altogether. We at once engaged about a dozen coolies to pull down the two partitions, converting the thr...ee houses into one, knowing that is would not endanger the building, as I left the posts in the center 'of each partition still standing. At seven o'clock next morning Ah Mow pre- pared a substantial breakfast which I was sadly THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. 71 in need of. At ten o^clock, as Mr. Wainright advised, an English man-of-war, the ** Curocoa, '* came sailing up the river ; and scarcely was she secured to her moorings when I boarded her. My old friend the Captain welcomed me as usual, but on seeing my depressed air, anxiously enquired : '* You seem to be in trouble Ridgway.
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