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...solitary Japanese boy on the U.S. West Coast, to serve as houseboy, to hoe fields of Japanese truck gardeners, to wait on table, to be a hotel busboy, gave him a hard core under the candid and mannerly exterior; certainly it taught him that there was only himself to fend for himself...
Damning to Sir Jock was the testimony of his African houseboy, who had seen him take two pistols from his bedroom to his study shortly before the murder; the story of the policeman who found part of a bloody golf stocking and bits of charred sacking in a bonfire Sir Jock built the morning after the murder; his own question to a police inspector: "If you found your wife in bed with a man and shot him, would you be hanged for murder...
...Peking houseboy mocking his master with the chant : "Mo-yu cou-dzah, Mo-yu wa-dzah, Mo-yu chen, Mo-yu fa-dzah" -he has no pants, no socks, no money, no method...
...mainly they wrestled with the Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been...
...years, Henry defies official criticism of his Negrophilism. But when a favorite houseboy, bored by Henry's good treatment, suddenly leaves him, Henry is disillusioned about natives. During a Negro uprising, he wields as big an imperialist stick as any. Finally his hypochondria blots out natives, women, Africa, religion altogether...