Punch (72.1877)

58 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Februaby 10, 1877.

JOHN CHINAMAN.

Air—" A Highland Lad my Love was horn."

"We have to announce the landing at Southampton, (Saturday, January 27), of QuoH-SuNG-TAO,the first Chinese Envoy ever accredited to this country,
and suite."—Shipping Intelligence.

A Chinaman Qtjoh-Sung was born,
The " Foreign. Devils " he held in scorn ;
But some time ago those " Devils " began
To tread on the toes of John Chinaman,
So like it or no, John Chinaman,
You have got to go, John Chinaman,
To the land of the " Outer-barba-ri-an,"
An Ambassador, though, John Chinaman!

With his eyes aslant, and his pigtail's braid
Coiledneatly round his close-shaved head,
And his button a-top, Southampton ran
To behold this great Panjanderan !

And if drroH-SuNG is scarce so fine a man
As we hoped for the sample Chinaman,
How many big things from as little began
As this Embassy from John Chinaman I

As stubborn as pigs, and as hard to steer,
With a taste for cheap buying and selling'dear ;

A decidedly difficult sort of man

To deal with, we've found J ohn Chinaman.

His own way he '11 go, will John Chinaman;

At no lie he '11 shy, will John Chinaman;

And he '11 sell you a bargain whenever he can,

In treaties or teas, will John Chinaman!

You may talk of your Yankee and Hebrew Jew,
But I guess they re small potatoes, and few
In a hill, compared with that yellow man,
After yellow boys keen, John Chinaman.

He '11 outdo our doos will John Chinaman; _
And he '11 win where we lose, will John Chinaman;
The dirt our miners have left he '11 " pan,"
And. make it pay, will John Chinaman!

If all this he has learnt without leaving home,
What will it be now that he deigns to roam,
And from civilised Christians learns to plan
New dodges undreamed by John Chinaman ?