Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors:
Subjects:
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
bull-nosed .45 automatic. His hunger and his poverty and the misery of his sisterslife had converted Sing Fang to a new enterprise. He hadpassed his word, and over the spurting blood of three whitechickens he had whispered the complicated oath whichmade him a member of the Ling Yip Tong. In the left-hand pocket of the black coat was a thousand dollars incurrency. The money was a retaining fee paid to him byYut Gar. The life of an active member of the Ling Yips rarelyexceeds twelve months. Their killers are a well-paid lot.Yut Gar had suggested to the poet that the mask of hisreputation would protect him in his work for many years;but the apothecarys prayer for the man about to die wasmore appropriate than Yut Gars babbling optimism. Thereafter for many days the poets sister ate food offirst quality and dressed in gentle fabrics. On his table in his room above the Falling Tear Pawn-shop his brushes were abandoned. No longer from thebrushes silken ends flowed the liquid syllables of the
Text Appearing After Image:
The Apothecary Saw Yut Car Reach Oat His Hand and Touch the Poets Jtrm classics. The brushes were caked with black ink, but theink was not so black as the new enterprise to which thepoet had subscribed. The first months of Sing Fangs affiliation with the LingYip Tong were devoted to the business of learning hisweapon. A gunman of the tongs is not born with theability to create a three-bullet pattern six inches in diam-eter at a range of fifty yards. In police circles it is knownthat the Ling Yip killings are midnight affairs, and mid-night marksmanship means long weeks of practice boileddown to where accuracy becomes instinct. Neither do theLing Yips shoot straight-armed. In twelve years SanFranciscos Chinatown has known a dozen Ling Yip killings.Witnesses to five of their killings testified that the opera-tives hand was not extended, and that he shot with hisright arm close against his side. In the second room of the cellar under Yut Gars storeSing Fang spent long hours in practice w

Note About Images