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) MHDfQ THREE LANGUAGES.1 They sailed away, and after much marine wandering and transferring from one vessel to another, arrived in Ban Francisco. Wing had a taste for the needle and secured a job at tailoring. The faithful Julie proved an adept and ahares Wing’s labors. They still find eoxne difficulty in conversing. Wing knows a few words of English and a few of Indian. Julie knows a few of English and a few of Chinese, i When their discussion becomes animated they resort to all three languagesat once, and the talk is very exciting. There is a little Wing now, and ho is learning all three languages.I Their home ia on'the top Qoor of aJRosaalloy tenement, where Julio is rapidly being converted into a Chinawoman byher fellow lodgers. Sho is quiet at all times, and is presumably mourning for the freedom of her native enow fields. •She does not go out, because the noise and thp bustle of the streets frightens her. Wing's leavo of abseno® has long tsinco expired, but in the confines of civilization ho has become the master, and has no intention of returning to the Jland of his wife’s people?.1 The story has been pretty well authenticated, with tho exception of the intention of tho Indians to eat Wing after killing Min. His own countrymen dcnot believe this part of liia story, but .Wing adheres to it stoutly, and the strongest tio between him and his wife • ia his gratitude to her for saving him from such a fate.‘ Voyagers to the far north state that they have heard of cannibalism ;lt;uioug tho Indians, but it Juts always been attributed to isolated instances of starvation’s necessity, and not habit.—-San Francisco Examiner.
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Lock Haven Express
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Oct 30, 1890
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