When all five had climbed out, they found that they were near a great
wall. It was built of very old stones and was as wide as a road on
top. Several horses could ride abreast on it.

A company of Chinese soldiers with guns and swords guarded the gate,
and the three little Chinamen, Ping Pong, Sing Song, and Ah See, were
afraid to enter with the American boy. The soldiers might have let
Wienerwurst in because he was yellow like themselves, but Marmaduke
was much too white.

Of course, he was disappointed, but his disappointment didn't last
long, for Ping Pong just clapped his hands, and all three crouched
down as boys do when they are playing leapfrog, or like the acrobats
in the circus. Sing Song climbed on the back of Ping Pong, and Ah See
on top of Sing Song. But at that Ah See's head reached only half way
up the great wall.

He leaned down towards Marmaduke.

"Come up, little Mellican boy," said he.

And Marmaduke climbed up on the three backs and stood on the shoulders
of Ah See, who exclaimed in delight to his friends,--

"Why, he not flaidlily at all."

Then he told Marmaduke to catch hold of his pigtail. Which the little
boy did, and Ah See swung his head round and round, and his pigtail
with it, like David's slingshot in the Bible story.