China Seas Page #5

we'd both be a little bit soiled.

Did you ever see an English river?

No, I'm dumb at geography,

just like I am at everything else.

Well, it's cool, clear and clean.

Put a stream like that alongside

any river out here...

...dirty, yellow, muddy...

...you'll see the difference.

That was only a few years ago.

The pirates killed

every white person aboard...

...except the captain,

and then scuttled the ship.

Better take care of these pearls

in case of a piracy.

Why? They're artificial.

They're not worth anything.

Twelve and a half bucks.

A bargain, I'd say.

Where did you get them, Mr. Timmons?

- She picked them up...

- I bought them myself, in Tokyo.

Well, you know, it's not always easy

to tell the real from...

- I'm sure you didn't pay too much for them.

- Bet your sweet life she didn't.

That little woman gets her money's

worth every time, huh, poopsie?

Hey, you see that chess game over there?

When I was 4 years old,

I played 10 people all at once, blindfolded.

I lost every game.

Pirates. Baloney.

- Where did you really get those pearls, huh?

- You won't tell Wilbur, will you?

Twelve and a half bucks to Wilbur.

That pirate hooey of yours is stuff

they always tell tourists.

I'll bet they don't rate

1-9 with our rumrunners.

Bosh. Your rumrunners learned the game

from our pirates, even to hijacking.

That trick of identifying each other...

...by matching the

halves of a torn $ 100 bill.

- Here they use a 100 note.

- Sunday paper bunk.

- Hey, mate, come here.

- Yes, sir.

- How are you, Mr. Davids?

- How are you, Sir Guy?

Tell him that bunk about the ship

they held up and scuttled.

Get a load of this. It's terrific.

I don't remember saying anything,

Timmons.

You can't get out of it like that.

Tell him about the one white officer

who came out of it alive.

What's the matter with that boy?

Was I speaking out of turn?

I'm afraid you were. That's Tom Davids,

captain of the ship I was telling you about.

Say, don't look now, but I think

my stomach is full of butterflies.

Isabelle.

Isabelle MacCarthy.

- Yes?

- Would you say that I looked like a lady?

No, Miss Dolly. I been with you

all too long to insult you that way.

Say, what's the difference?

What's that snooty English dame got

that I ain't?

She's more refined-like.

She would never wear that dress

with all them shiny beads you got.

That dress is more my type.

You been hinting for that dress for a month.

Go on and take it.

You spoiled it for me, anyway.

You sure got the right feeling though,

honey.

I got to let this out a smidgen.

You sure is got the right instincts,

no matter what they all said.

What do they say?

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