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Ah Hop

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 05/16/2015 - 18:18

In the third and last of Mary Unsworth's memoirs, she tells us the sad story of Ah Hop, a Chinese nurse she came to know. Unlike Mary's previous tale of Chow Sing, this one doesn't have a happy ending.


"Ah Hop" by Mary Unsworth, copied from handwritten pages, punctuation as original.