| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Francis Bret Harte. (1836–1902) |
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| 1 | Which I wish to remark,—
And my language is plain,—
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 2 | | Ah Sin was his name. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 3 | | With the smile that was childlike and bland. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 4 | | We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 5 | He smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor
And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. |
| The Society upon the Stanislaus. |
| 6 | | With unpronounceable awful names. |
| The Tale of a Pony. |
| 7 | For there be women, fair as she,
Whose verbs and nouns do more agree. |
| Mrs. Judge Jenkins. |
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