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Quitting the Residency I drive westward by the river side, over the site of the Captan Bazaar, past also that huge fortified heap the Muchee Bawn, till I reach the beautiful enclosure in which the great Imambara stands.
"No, no; rest a bit, and we'll find a cool place somewhere. I daresay we shall see a cave along here." "Can't do it, sir," he said feebly; "I've kep' on as long as I could. It's all up. Never mind me. If those beggars see you, they'll have no mercy on you, so go on and try and get away." "Yes; velly muchee makee haste. Pilate come soon." "Yes, sir; he's quite right, sir. You two cut and run."
Ching shut his eyes and shook his head solemnly. "Velly muchee keepee mouf shut," he said, with the addition now of a few nods of the head. "Nobody but Ching an' officer know."
She sprang up and went into the house. "Sing Pete," she said, stepping into the kitchen, "may I have some sugar I'd like the lumpy kind if you have it?" "Sure! You have him sugal how muchee you want?" as he held out to her a tin containing squares of the desired article. "Oh, enough to win a heart!" Carolyn June answered laughing, at the same time taking a handful from the can. "You eat him?"
"Took me muchee long time for learn him from young missee," said the Chinaman with a hurt look.
"She's gone," repeated Captain Kneebone. "No boat for us." But the compradore, dragging his bundle of sharp halberds, poked an inquisitive head out past the captain's, and peered on all sides through the smoke, with comical thoroughness. He dodged back, grinning and ducking amiably. "Moh bettah look-see," he chuckled; "dat coolie come-back, he too muchee waitee, b'long one piecee foolo-man."
Everybody was hilarious over this decision save the men-of-all-work, who longed unspeakably for a less poetic existence Hop Yet particularly, who thought camping out 'not muchee good. Dicky was more pleased than anybody, perhaps, as every day in the canyon was one day less in school; not that he had ever been to school, but he knew in advance, instinctively, that it wouldn't suit him.
They like to end a word with ee as "muchee," and they find it next to impossible to frame the letter R. For example the word rice becomes lice in a Chinaman's mouth, and a Christian is a Chlistian, while an American is turned into an Amelican.
In fact, I did not breathe freely until the great ridge and several masses of rock were between us; and only then, a good half-mile away in the direction from which we had come, did we venture to speak above our breath. "Velly big pity," said Ching, whose face was all in wrinkles. "Velly muchee wish back at fancee shop." "Let's find a place before we talk about that," I said.
"Let's put off to-night right away," said Wilbur. "Low tide," answered Moran; "and besides Charlie, did you see them close? Were you near them?" "No go muchee close." "Did they have something with them, reeved up in a hammock something that smelled sweet?" "Like a joss-stick, for instance?" "No savvy; no can tell. Him try catch um schooner sure. Him velly bad China boy.
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