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TRAINING SPARROWS TO FIGHT.
Sceiiß in a Chinese Gambling House ini
Philadelphia.
From the Philadelphia Times, Jan. 26.
A sparrow fight took place last night in I
the Chinese gambling house at No. 219
North Ninth street. It was the third fight I
of the kind given at this place. Chong Wah
keeps a Chinese store at No. 219, and Bun |
Sun Low has a little tin sign out over the I
side door announcing that there is a Chin ei
restaurant inside. The store is simply a I
blind,; 'd the r taurant is only run as a
cover to the r d business of the place,which I
is one of the most complete Chinese sport ■
ing houses in the United States. The gam
bling room on the first floor back.was cleared
of all the furniture, and about seventy-five |
Chinamen crowded about an old extension |
table turned upside down, with the legs
sawed off. The atmosphere was stifling.
When Bun Sun Low nudged his way |
through the crowd to the sparrow pit he ,
had a bird in each hand. Their wings were .
cut and their tails were cropped close. |
Their bills were almost white where they |
had been sandpap"rcd to make their little
beaks as sharp as a needle’s point. The
Mongolian spectators watched the birdsand I
Bun Sun Low closely. One of the spar
rows had a little piece of red ribbon
wrapped around its leg to distinguish it
from the other. Hop Chung Lung, who is
one of the silent partners of the gambling
hou=e, then sized up the birds with a sport
ing man’s eye. and offered to bet ten
“plunks” (dolla.s) that the bird with the
red ribbon on its right leg would kill the :
other. There were no takers until Bun Sun 1
Low had dropped the birds in the pit. The I
moment this was done the sparrow that had
no ribbon on it plunged at the other and
picked a mouthful of feathers out of its
head. This caused a chuckle all around,
and Charlie Lee, the Tenth street laundry
man, coven d Hop Chung’s ten “plunks.”
This added fresh excitement to the fight.
The bird with the red leg was the gamest,
and made a lunge at his antagonist, plucking
out his left eye. In another moment he
pecked the other bird in the throat, and
* his needle-pointed bill did deadly work.
The one-eyed bird toppled over and fell on
the sand dead.
The excitement, although boisterous, was
not intense. Charlie Lee reluctantly handed
over the ten “plunks” he had los‘ ; and Bun
Sun Low gathered up the dead bird and the
victor. Other fights followed, and when the
fourth brace had fought for three or four
minutes, Chung Wat told Bun Sun Low to
stop the fight, and the spectators were told
the sport was over.
His Languages.
San Francisco Post.
The local heathen Chinese rather more
than holds his own in some respects, and
many of the children of the better c'ass of
Mongolians have attended school to some
purpose, despite the social restriction law
under which they labrr. The other day a
California street mat.on, just returned from
a three years’ tour abroad, advertised for a
first-class cook, whereupon an intelligent
looking pigtail applied for the position.
“Whatee you name, John?” asked in that
peculiar baby talk supposed to be adapted
to infants and other foreigners.
“Wan Lee”
“You sabe least tlurklee, Wan?” lisped
the lady.
The Chinaman knit his brows and shook
his head.
“O, dear me!” said the tourist to her im
ported maid, in what is known here as Mills
Seminary—and abroad as restaurant
French, “what am Ito do? I can’t make
him understand.”
“It is very unfortunate,” said the China
man reflec.ively. “I see you don’t speak
French very well, and, besides that, Chi
nese and English are the only languages 1
know.”
He was not engaged.
It’s the Women That Cause the Deceit.
Boston Gazette.
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