Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — Following the American Custom. [ARTICLE]

Following the American Custom.

A Chinese laundry man called in at a Norwich grocery store and asked for permission to ride to the West Side on the grocer's wagon. The grocer expressed his willingness to do so slight a favor him, and assured him he was welcome to the ride. The beaming face of the Chinaman showed a hearty acknowledgment of the favor, wh le his tongue rattled out in pigeon English r “Dlink V Dlink?” The grocer could not interpret the salutation, and witnessing his confusion the lauudrvman stammered out: “Dlinkee wiiiskee?" The grocer then realized that the grateful Chinaman, in the generosity of his heart, wished to treat in recognition of the kindness, after the most approved American fashion/ When he, declined with thanks a broad grin spread itself upon that Oriental coimtenance, and “John” said; “Skusee! Sknsee! I links all Melican man dlinkee whiskee. Bnt no knowpe-!”— Noncich ( Conn. I Bulletin. ■ u Thebe can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to lmauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.— Emerson.