y apartments, and have good food in plenty, and being
at no expense at all, they, could make shirts for the clothiers at half
a dollar apiece and thus keep themselves in smoking tobacco and such
other luxuries as they wanted. When the two months were up they would go
just as straight as they could walk to Mother Leonard's and get drunk;
and from there to Kearney street and steal something; and thence to this
city prison, and next day back to the old quarters in the county jail
again. One of them had really kept this up for nine years and the other
four or five, and both said they meant to end their days in that prison.
**--[**The former of the two did.--Ed. Men.]--Finally, both these
creatures fell upon me while I was dozing with my head against their
grating, and battered me considerably, because they discovered that I
was a Chinaman, and they said I was "a bloody interlopin' loafer come
from the devil's own country to take the bread out of dacent people's
mouths and put down the wages for work whin it was all a Christian could
do to kape body and sowl together as it was." "Loafer" means one who
will not work.

AH SONG HI.

LETTER VI

SAN FRANCISCO, 18--.

DEAR CHING-FOO: To continue--the two women became reconciled to each
other again through the common bond of interest and sympathy created
between them by pounding me in partnership, and when they had finished
me they fell to embracing each other again and swearing more eternal
affection like that which had subsisted between them all the evening,
barring occasional interruptions. They agreed to swear the finger-biting
on the Greaser in open court, and get him sent to the penitentiary for
the crime of mayhem.

Another of our company was a boy of fourteen who had been watched for
some time by officers and teachers, and repeatedly detected in enticing
young girls from the public schools to the lodgings of gentlemen down
town. He had been furnished with lures in the form of pictures and books
of a peculiar kind, and these he had distributed among his clients.
There were likenesses of fifteen of these young girls on exhibition
(only to prominent citizens and persons in authority, it was said,
though most people came to get a sight) at the police headquarters, but
no punishment at all was to be inflicted on the poor little misses. The
boy was afterward sent into captiv