Three Men On a Chinese Houseboat : the Story of a River Voyage
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It was with the greatest difficulty, when the boat was stove in at the side, that he was prevented from patching it up with his remedies. The Pilot was very gracious to the Three Men. One day he startled Billy by dipping a basin in some wicked-looking brown fluid and holding it up for his delectation, saying in big tones, ' Chah ' (tea). Billy was not taking any, and so the Pilot poured it down his own throat with great gusto. He could shout as loudly as any when there was work to be done. Next... to him came the Pirate Chief, tall, muscular, good- looking, and harum-scarum. He, with his col- league, a wizened, bristly-faced man, managed the ' sweep.' How he could shout when the oar was going ! And he did it in tune too. • Ay O ! Ay O ! Ay Oa ! Ay O ! Ay 01 A musical person may try this as I d* : II d> : 1 I d' : 1,8 I d' : 1 I in any key he pleases. He must put in a ground bass of ' Ugh ! Ugh ! Ugh ! ' upon a THE PIRATE CHIEF AND CO 63 note gravitating somewhere about the legion of the lower ' do' for the rest of the oarsmen, and then he will have some, though imperfect, idea of the music a Chinese puts into his work.
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