The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 124: what you’re looking at

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118 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. drap of cid Scotch whisky to be had it’s sair against ma willI have to put up with such villainous liquor dis- da Or penused in Persian inns. _. “By rare good luck I discovered that over here they -had something not so vera bad, and when the dust down me rullet forces the tears from me eyes, I wander across the way to wet me whistle.” “Good. Now that the explanation is accepted, go on.” é “This is a braw place, nae doubt, to them that have a taste for it, but the sight of you sprawling gillies on the floor gives me a muckle pain, which, however, I have succeeded in keeping within limits. = ‘‘Wishing to be left in peace to enjoy my glass of grog I pushed my way in yonder crevice and stretched out at my ease on the couch, when two chaps took their places’ on the other side of the decorated screen and began talking in English. oo. “Ye ken that was quite enough to arouse my curios.“ ity, and whe I- pretended to be asieep, I perked up my | ear to listen.” ‘‘How long ago was this Sandy?” “How lang?—surely not more than twenty minutes, though if I were placed on me omtn I could nae swear till it, sor. “Ye see, one of them spoke English perfestly OkSAGO