meb-bee

Updated: May 7, 2025

Chinamen are awful cowards, and with the first word I said to the soldier, Hang had shuffled to his own room, and there he had remained until he heard Volmer go out of the house. Then he came back, and looking at me with an expression of the most solemn pity, said, "He vellee blad man he killee man he killee you, meb-bee!" The poor little heathen was evidently greatly disturbed, and so was I, too.

Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe - Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888