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Chinamen r.«. Wally.—At Big Bar, on the ‘ Mokelumne river, a party of seven Chinamen are working a claim, and have about a dozen • Wall vs hired to assist them. Hard times havei J 1driven the Wall vs to serve in this menial ca- !parity, in a land where, to the manor born, the poor Indian was once the aristocrat of the copper-colored race. Wally endures his humili-iating servitude with grunts of dissatisfaction \ and dull-meat-axe looks at hi-* long-tailed ] task-masters. manifesting his big disgust in a j | scally-wag *\yah-yah-yah-yah-a-h” imitation of! , John's jaw-breaking jargon,—obstinately re- j fusing to eat boiled rice. The Wallys used toboast that when the Americans all left, (?) they would make slaves of the Chinese, present appearances would seem to indicate that the boot is 011 the other foot. I ^
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San Andreas Independent
San Andreas, California, US
Sat, Nov 29, 1856
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