52 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

When the newly named Joe Pigtail saw that they were following him,
he stopped and waited for them.

“We wanted to look about Chinatown,” said Uncle Nat to Joe.

“ Chinee-town ? Goodee. Me showee,” and he kindly led them to
quarters they had not seen and to other queer shops, finally stopping:
before a house that had a laundry look.

“ Me— me!” he said, intimating that he stopped there, and beckon-
ing them in.

In the outer room. there were three men busy with laundry-work,
and through an open door a fourth could be seen occupied with some
kind of cooking in his shadowy cubby-hole. In the outer room, every- -
thing was very plain, and though there was an abundance of chances
to stand up, there was none to sit down unless one literally took the
floor. A side door into a yard had been swung back and looking across
this yard the boys could see into the next house where a middle-aged
American lady was seated beside a Chinese boy teaching him out of a
book. |

“She goodee woman —like you!” said Joe to Uncle Nat in compli-
mentary tones.

“Uncle Nat ain’t a woman,” whispered Rick to Ralph.

When they left the place, turning to look back, they saw Joe stand-
ing by a laundry table and gazing thoughtfully upon the retreating

party,