Show S-- STUDENT LITE 2 was a study of wrath less in the door looking from one to another and then to me for an explanation We took no notice of him whatever I stooped and carelessly bewail gathering up the pieces of crockery while the other girls were living around busy as bees preparing dinner cleverly managing to run against one another and spill flour milk grease and whatever they happened to have in their hands on Citing’s spotless 1 1 is face floor anti dismay It was really comical in its tragic expression Any one seeing his face then who was not acquainted with the particulars would have imagined he had just lost his best friend We rather looked for an outburst of wrath but he was Iteyond speech for the first few moments then running up to me he began pleading with me to take the girls away out of his kitchen I hit I cut him short with “O no Ching you too ‘slick to work so girls come to heln me cook 'till von get well’ Then he bega to plead more eloquently “Me no slick me velly well Ching cookee dinner vellv good mtichee good Little girls no cookee sooilce hands Me cook velly good dinner quick Ching no sick no more see” Poor Ching rattled on volubly fear loosening his tongue and making him wonderfully humble and after holding out until I thought he had been sufficiently punished I gave in first giving him a good scolding for his previous behavior which he to my surprise took very meekly Then we girls left him in peace to restore order out of the havoc we had wrought in his beloved sanctum We hurried out of his hearing where we could relieve our feelings by a good hearty laugh We could hear occasional groans from the kitchen as poor Ching discovered some new or greater disorder and I began to feel almost sorry for him Iut the lesson did him good for it frightened all the “slickness’’ out of him and he never again resorted to illness to gain his ends It was amusing afterwards to watch Ching's face and actions whenever the two girls who had helped cook that day came to the house lie would not leave the kitchen for a moment and if we happened to go into the kitchen he would watch the girls as closely as a cat would a mouse but his politeness to them was very marked V E J |