...state of Nye's sleeve, Which was stuffed full of aces and howers, And the same with intent to deceive. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right hower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he...

...reveals an antagonism more deeply-seated than righteous indignation at the cunning of a card-sharp: Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And...said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," And he went for that heathen Chinee. 1. Bret Harte, "Plain Language from Truthful James",...

...reveals an antagonism more deeply-seated than righteous indignation at the cunning of a card-sharp: Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And...said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," And he went for thai heathen Chinee. 1. Bret Hartc, "Plain Language from Truthful James",...

...state of Nye 's sleeve; Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, And the same with intent to deceive. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...frightful to see — Till at last he put down a right bowers, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he...

...beats them at their own game, however, by concealing cards in his sleeves and marking them with wax. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. "We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor," Nye declares, before "he went for that Heathen Chinee," though...

...3d. Bower, the term used in euchre, is an entirely different word. It is tiaucr, a peasant or knave. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made. Were quit« frightful to see — Till at last he pot down a right bower Which the same Kye had dealt onto...

...well. Dealt a hand by the unscrupulous Nye, Ah Sin's cards turn out to be identical to the narrator's: Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And...said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," And he went for that heathen Chinee. (127) The nineteenth-century literary controversy surrounding...

...state of Nye's sleeve, Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, And the same with intent to deceive. But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...with a sigh, And said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinee cheap labor," — And he went for that heathen Chinee. In the scene that ensued I did not take...

...Sin, with a bland and child-like smile, sits down to cards — a game " he did not understand "— "But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee,...points that he made Were quite frightful to see." " In his sleeves, which were long, He had twenty-four packs — Which was coming it strong, Yet such...