Mock Hen and Mock Turtle
"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."—Ballad of East and West.
"But the law of the jungle is jungle law only, and the law of the pack is only for the pack."—Other Sayings of Shere Khan.
A HALF turn from the clattering hubbub of Chatham Square and you are in Chinatown, slipping, within ten feet, through an invisible wall, from the glitter of the gin palace and the pawn-shop to the sinister shadows of irregular streets and blind alleys, where yellow men pad swiftly along greasy asphalt beneath windows glinting with ivory, bronze and lacquer; through which float the scents of aloes and of incense and all the subtle suggestion of the East.
No one better than the Chink himself realizes the commercial value of the taboo, the bizarre and
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