But his grin somehow soon turned the tables
On "the smile that was childlike and bland."
'Tis a theme for Bret Harte,
P'raps he only could show
The artful Jap's art—
If I may put it so—
In a way which is worthy the subject.
But me interfere, gents? Why, no!
If Jap's cards had been stocked—
Which I do not believe—