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Which I wish to remark	A
And my language is plain	B
That for ways that are dark	A
And for tricks that are vain	B
The heathen Chinee is peculiar	C
Which the same I would rise to explain	B
	-
Ah Sin was his name	D
And I shall not deny	E
In regard to the same	D
What that name might imply	E
But his smile it was pensive and childlike	F
As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye	E
	-
It was August the third	G
And quite soft was the skies	H
Which it might be inferred	G
That Ah Sin was likewise	H
Yet he played it that day upon William	I
And me in a way I despise	H
	-
Which we had a small game	D
And Ah Sin took a hand	J
It was Euchre The same	D
He did not understand	J
But he smiled as he sat by the table	K
With the smile that was childlike and bland	J
	-
Yet the cards they were stocked	L
In a way that I grieve	M
And my feelings were shocked	L
At the state of Nye's sleeve	M
Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers	N
And the same with intent to deceive	M
	-
But the hands that were played	O
By that heathen Chinee	E
And the points that he made	O
Were quite frightful to see	P
Till at last he put down a right bower	C
Which the same Nye had dealt unto me	P
	-
Then I looked up at Nye	E
And he gazed upon me	P
And he rose with a sigh	E
And said Can this be	P
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor	C
And he went for that heathen Chinee	E
	-
In the scene that ensued	Q
I did not take a hand	J
But the floor it was strewed	J
Like the leaves on the strand	J
With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding	R
In the game he did not understand	J
	-
In his sleeves which were long	S
He had twenty four packs	T
Which was coming it strong	S
Yet I state but the facts	U
And we found on his nails which were taper	C
What is frequent in tapers that's wax	T
	-
Which is why I remark	A
And my language is plain	E
That for ways that are dark	A
And for tricks that are vain	E
The heathen Chinee is peculiar	C
Which the same I am free to maintain	E

Bret Harte

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