Other glorious brood-sows, of Berkshire, Duroc-Jersey, and O. I. C.
blood, they saw till they were wearied, and new-born kids and lambs,
and rotund does and ewes. From center to center, Paula kept the
telephones warning ahead of the party's coming, so that Mr. Manson
waited to exhibit the great King Polo, and his broad-backed Shorthorn
harem, and the Shorthorn harems of bulls that were only little less
than King Polo in magnificence and record; and Parkman, the Jersey
manager, was on hand, with staffed assistants, to parade Sensational
Drake, Golden Jolly, Fontaine Royal, Oxford Master, and Karnak's Fairy
Boy--blue ribbon bulls, all, and founders and scions of noble houses of
butter-fat renown, and Rosaire Queen, Standby's Dam, Golden Jolly's
Lass, Olga's Pride, and Gertie of Maitlands--equally blue-ribboned and
blue-blooded Jersey matrons in the royal realm of butter-fat; and Mr.
Mendenhall, who had charge of the Shires, proudly exhibited a string of
mighty stallions, led by the mighty Mountain Lad, and a longer string
of matrons, headed by the Fotherington Princess of the silver whinny.
Even old Alden Bessie, the Princess's dam, retired to but part-day's
work, he sent for that they might render due honor to so notable a dam.
As four o'clock approached, Donald Ware, not keen on swimming, returned
in one of the machines to the Big House, and Mr. Gulhuss remained to
discuss Shires with Mr. Mendenhall. Dick was at the tank when the party
arrived, and the girls were immediately insistent for the new song.
"It isn't exactly a new song," Dick explained, his gray eyes twinkling
roguery, "and it's not my song. It was sung in Japan before I was born,
and, I doubt not, before Columbus discovered America. Also, it is a
duet--a competitive duet with forfeit penalties attached. Paula will
have to sing it with me.--I'll teach you. Sit down there, that's
right.--Now all the rest of you gather around and sit down."
Still in her riding habit, Paula sat down on the concrete, facing her
husband, in the center of the sitting audience. Under his direction,
timing her movements to his, she slapped her hands on her knees,
slapped her palms together, and slapped her palms against his palms
much in the fashion of the nursery game of "Bean Porridge Hot." Then he
sang the song, which was short and which she quickly picked up, singing
it with him and clapping the accent. While the air of it was orientally
catchy, it was chanted slowly, almost monotonously, but it was quickly
provocative of excitement to the spectators:
"_Jong-Keena, Jong-Keena,
Jong-Jong, Keena-Keena,
Yo-ko-ham-a, Nag-a-sak-i,
Kobe-mar-o--hoy!!!_"
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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