"
"I want you to understand that Patrick O'Reilly won't take no
insults from you, nor any other man!"
"Hush, O'Reilly!" said Terence O'Gorman, another Irish miner. "Dewey
is perfectly right. I came over from Ireland like you, but he hasn't
said anything against either of us."
"That is where you are right, O'Gorman," said Richard Dewey
cordially. "You are a man of sense, and can understand me. My own
father emigrated from England, and I am not likely to say anything
against the class to which he belonged. Now, boys, you have had
enough sport out of the poor Chinaman. I advise you to let him go."
Ki Sing grasped at this suggestion.
"Melican man speak velly good," he said.
"Of course, you think so," sneered O'Reilly. "I say, boys, let's cut
off his pigtail," touching the poor Chinaman's queue.
Ki Sing uttered a cry of dismay as O'Reilly's suggestion was greeted
with favorable shouts by the thoughtless crowd.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE DUEL OF THE MINERS.
O'Reilly's suggestion chimed in with the rough humor of the crowd.
They were not bad-hearted men, but, though rough in their manners,
not much worse on the average than an equal number of men in the
Eastern States.
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