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When they addressed the latter they used what appeared to be a third language, and which I later learned is a mongrel tongue rather analogous to the Pidgin-English of the Chinese coolie. How far we marched I have no conception, nor has Perry. Both of us were asleep much of the time for hours before a halt was called then we dropped in our tracks.
"I can't understand if you talk pidgin-English, Keith." "Well ... you know what ravenous means? Hungry. And a woman of title you know what a lord is.... Well, and she's chasing about, dropping little scented notes at every street corner for him." "Oh they are awful!" cried Jenny. "Countesses! Always in the divorce court, or something. Somebody ought to stop them.
Chok-foo took the destruction of his pipe and the rough collaring that followed in good part, protesting, in an extraordinary jargon, which is styled Pidgin-English, that he had only meant to have a "Very littee smokee," not being able, just then, to resist the temptation.
"Nothing's going to happen, T. A., except that I'll probably come home with my complexion ruined. I'll feel a great deal more at home talking pidgin-English to Senor Alvarez in Buenos Aires than you will talking Featherlooms to Miss Skirt-Buyer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The rest of them in one great rush smothered that pony. They hung on to his ears, to his mane, to his tail; they lay in piles across his back, seventeen in all. The carpenter, seizing the hook of the cargo-chain, flung himself on top of them. A very satisfactory petty officer too, but he stuttered. Have you ever heard a light-yellow, lean, sad, earnest Chinaman stutter in pidgin-English?
When they addressed the latter they used what appeared to be a third language, and which I later learned is a mongrel tongue rather analogous to the Pidgin-English of the Chinese coolie. How far we marched I have no conception, nor has Perry. Both of us were asleep much of the time for hours before a halt was called then we dropped in our tracks.
He seemed to be having difficulty with the language, and was eking out his Pidgin-English with pantomime. "There!" cried Luella with a start; "what's that?" A heavy blow shook the walls of the building and sounded through the passage. "Good!" I said. "If our friends yonder are going to make trouble they must do it at once. Corson's got an ax, and the door will be down first they know."
Cabot made mental note of the fact that the Blossom spoke her spirit pidgin-English with a marked Down-East accent. Before he had time to notice more, the control announced that she had a message. The circle stirred in anticipation. Primmie wiggled in fearful ecstasy. "Listen!" commanded Little Cherry Blossom. "Everybodee harkee. Spirit comee heree. He say-ee " "Ow-ooo-ooo ooo OOO!!"
"Me hurtee?" she asked him, adopting pidgin-English "Me fallee off?" Fong Wu rose. "You were thrown," he answered gravely. She colored in confusion. "Pardon me," she said, "for speaking to you as if you were a coolie." Then, as she got feebly to her feet "I believe my right arm is broken." "I have some knowledge of healing," he declared; "let me look at it."
The "jolliest old josser" seemed difficult to repress; for already he had eluded Sam, and, reappearing in the kitchen doorway, waddled across the thoroughfare towards us. "Me new cook!" he repeated, going on from where he had left off. "Me Cheon!" and then, in queer pidgin-English, he solemnly rolled out a few of his many qualifications: "Me savey all about," he chanted.
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