Show how a chinaman nine alua 0 chicken one might imagine that the china man who gorges himself with broiled rats and birds nest soup would eat any kind of meat prepared in any manner but such ench is not the case john chinaman an has his hia religious notions about such things as aa well as other people many of tho the almond eyed inhabitants of chicago are not very good buddhists since coming to the city they have become apostate but watch the orthodox chinaman when he goes to the market for his bis sunday chicken lie will not take a dead one because the probabilities are that tho the fellow who killed it was waa not a believer in gautama and may have chopped its head off with a hatchet his chicken must have it head bead on and be very much alive john will go to the coop and stir the feathered prisoners up with a stick if he finds one that cackles and flutters flatters about tu in a lively manner he will buy it he has no use tor for a dumpish sickly appearing fowl having made a selection ho he takes tho the chicken home alivo alive gets out a dirty little image kneels before it makes some queer motions with his hands bands mumbles a 4 few words takes from a shelf or drawer a knife bate with a double edged blade which is extremely sharp and with much ceremony whacks oft the tha head of tho the fowl this done lie he leturno to the imago image and kneeling again apologizes for having committed suet such u wicked deed and to prepare the ck ft dianar |