George Manville Fenn
"Stan Lynn"
"A Boy's Adventures in China"
Chapter One.
“Can you use a Sword?”
“Yes! What is it?”
“Hist, boy! Jump up and dress.”
“Oh, it’s you, father!” said the newly aroused sleeper, slipping out of bed—or, rather, off his bed, for the heat of an Eastern China night had made him dispense with bedclothes.