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The Chinaman, in greeting, bowed and scraped and smiled and shook hands with himself cordially. "Hulloa, Ping Pong! Is supper ready?" called Hippy jovially. "Him come along, top-side piecee Heaven pidgin man," answered the Chinaman without an instant's hesitation, which, being freely translated, meant, "Supper is ready, high Heaven-born man."
"Wh-wha-what the dicken's d-d-d'ye mean by this?" stuttered and stammered Captain Gillespie, his passion almost stopping his speech. "Wh-wh-what d'ye mean, I say?" "Me only hab piecee cocky-fightee," answered Ching Wang as calmly as possible. "Me chin chin you, cap'en." Captain Gillespie fairly boiled over with rage.
Thank Gawd somebody's still the right stuff!" Suddenly, from a bunk on the left of Gaston Max came a faint cry. "Ah! He has bitten me!" "'Ullo!" said Bill "wotcher bin given' 'im, Pidgin? Chandu or hydrerphobia?" Ah-Fang-Fu crossed and handed him the pipe. "One piecee pipee. No more hab." Bill grasped the pipe eagerly and raised it to his lips.
Chin Lung, in Sacramento, telegraphs to Ming Yup, in San Francisco, "You me send one piecee me trunk," which means, in plain language, "Send me my trunk." Mr. Yup complies with the request, and responds by telegraph, "Me you trunkee you sendee."
And the Chinese think that it is wrong to save life. If any one is drownin', for instance, they think that it is the will of the higher Power and let 'em go. But they look down on girls dretfully. If you ask a Chinaman how many children he has got he will say "Two children and two piecee girl." Jest as if boys was only worthy to be called children, and girls a piece of a child.
You come walkee walkee 'gain?" "It's not very tempting, Ching," I said. "Why can't they leave us alone?" He tightened his lips and shook his head. Then, looking sharply before him, he hurried us along a little more. "Wish got ten twenty piecee soldier man 'longside," he whispered to me, and the next minute he grasped my arm with a spasmodic snatch. "What's the matter?" I said.
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