Suppose 'm that fella Chink maybe he think 'm me kai-kai along him," Kwaque grinned in one of his rare jokes.
Another thing he noticed, which, expressed in his own words, was: "That's the all-dangdest cleanest Chink I've ever clapped my lamps on.
No wood, however, was placed on the earth, which formed the floor, but it was dry; and although the wind entered it by innumerable
chinks, I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain.
The
Chink is busy all the time, and he keeps the ground just as busy.
I tried my canoe in a large pond, near my master's house, and then corrected in it what was amiss; stopping all the
chinks with YAHOOS' tallow, till I found it staunch, and able to bear me and my freight; and, when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by YAHOOS to the sea-side, under the conduct of the sorrel nag and another servant.
But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through
chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin.
No light appeared through the
chinks of the shutters; no noise gave reason to believe that it was inhabited.
I scrutinized the faces of the two bridegrooms, and saw but little probability of their leaving the bosom of earthly bliss, in the first week of the honeymoon and at the frosty hour of three, to climb above the clouds; nor when I felt how sharp the wind was as it rushed through a broken pane and eddied between the
chinks of my unplastered chamber, did I anticipate much alacrity on my own part, though we were to seek for the 'Great Carbuncle.
The wax-light flamed furiously under the effects of a fresh breeze which stole in through the
chinks of the door and the window, and cut the salle diagonally.
He constructed his cabin of small logs about six inches in diameter, stopping the
chinks with clay which he found at the depth of a few feet beneath the surface soil.
The rays of the colored suns were now shut out from them forever, for the last
chinks had been filled up in the wall that separated their prison from the Land of the Mangaboos.
The party without, whoever it was, could have stood close to the shutter without hearing anything spoken; and, seeing the light through the
chinks and finding all so quiet, might have been persuaded that only one person was there.
