Only—in the game we play,
Cards do turn up in a way
That would stagger sly Ah Sin himself. If you git in my way
On my road to "Old Cathay,"
Or my aid this gyurl should pray,
I might p'raps come down like thunder,—as I did in Mandalay!
[*] "In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch
Is giving too little and asking too much."
Canning's "A Political Despatch."