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Show RUINED BY A GHOST. Camp Sing is ft ruined Mongolian a financial wreck. He was ruined and wrecked by ft ghost. He tells a sorrowful tale. Like all his race, Camp Sing is superstitious, aud a firm believer in ghosts, according to tne prevalent Chinese notions regarding the3e noctural ramblers from the grave. That it is necessary to feed the dead by placing food on their graves at Btated times he piously believes, be-lieves, aud that the dead leave their tombs and prospect about in search of provisions in case they are not proper ly fed, he does not doubt. In defence of this, his belief, Camp Bays: "Me hear plenty ole people back home China say bo plenty people this country say all same see um dead man come dark nightee to housee, get eatee." Camp Sing's story of his ghost troubles is as follows: "One midnight ee 'bout tlee month 'go. one dead man came in my housee. He look belly bad all whiteface. He gloan (groan), say he belly hungly; nobody feed him. Me belly 'fluid cubber up me head. Gose (ghost) eat-ee up all lice (rice), all my cabby (cabbage), all everting, then go 'way. "Nex' nightee gose come all same all time all same. He come, he gloan, he eat-ee. Me belly flaid all time. S'pose me no catch-ee plenty glub (grub) for gose, he belly mad. He say: 'Camp Sing, s'po3e you no catch-ee plenty glub, me take-ee you homo me my glave (grave). "Poco tiempo four five week gose he want-ee loast poke (roast pork). Me fiaid, me catch-ee loast uoke gose eat-eo plenty over' night-ee. Poco tiempo ho say: 'Camp 8iug, you catch-ee me chicken. S'pose you no do, me take-ee you me glave.' Me wuck (work) '.belly hard all time; me no much money, but me plenty flaid gose, so me catch-ee chicken for gose. "Nex' time he say: 'CampSing you catch ee me one bottle blandy you uo get blandy me take ee you me glave.' Me thinx um belly big gose for eat, for dink, but me belly flaid. Me catch-ee bottle blandy. Me teel belly bad for cause g03e ho eat-eo me all up. "Midnight-ee gose he come. - Me hear um dlink blaudy. He dhnk, idlink, dlink. Gose he get dlunk -smash all me cup, saucer, knock down me stove, fall down on glound. "Me plenty fliid no sleep all night-ee. Sunlise come me see gose Sun Lee, dead dlunk I Me call all Chinaman -my fiend come see gose. Sun Lee one Hop Sing one bad man. Me lick urn plenty. Now no more gose, no more glub me bust. Sun Lee eat me up. He more bad one big glaveyard (grave yard )" Virginia Enterprise. |