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Updated: May 7, 2025
I owed nothing; so far as I knew, I had done nothing wrong. "Hi, fellow! come out of the way! Reverse your carcass a bit, old chap! Get ! What the who the ?" "Oh, master, he wantchee makee much bobbery. He no b'long my pidgin, d rogue! He wantchee catch one more hundred cash! He b'long one piecee chairman!" This to me from my boy in apologetic explanation.
W. Keyse, Esquer, in caligraphy that began in the top left-hand corner, and trickled gradually down into the right-hand bottom one. Pumping the Celestial was no use. John Tow sabee'd only that a fair foreign devil gave the one missive, with a tikkie for delivery, and 'spose one time Tow makee plenty good walkee back with anulla paper some pidgin bime-bye catchee more tikkie.
"I'm glad to be here, Julia," said the captain. "You know it, too, I guess likely. Is all well with you, Julia?" Cherry Blossom in horrible pidgin English affirmed that all was well, all was happiness and delight and bliss in the realm beyond. Galusha did not hear much of this, he was suffering too acutely to listen. Then he heard Captain Jethro ask another question.
The Chinese candle maker, who provided the Captain whenever he went on a pilgrimage to Antipolo, was saying as he sat fanning himself and wiggling his foot: "What for you b'long foolish? Thisee belong Mergin Antipolo. She can do muchy more: others, no can do. No b'long plopper say pidgin b'long other man."
Hubbell conversed in the various languages of Europe by speaking pidgin English very loud, and omitting all verbs, articles, adverbs, and other cumbersome superfluities. Thus, to the fille de chambre. "Me out now you beds." The red-cheeked one from the provinces understood, in some miraculous way, that Mrs. Hubbell was now going out and that the beds could be made and the rooms tidied.
With a curiously lithe step, for all her age, she descended, and standing behind Ah-Fang-Fu tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to the outer door. He stood up and shuffled across, went up the four steps and unbarred the door. "Tchee, tchee," he chattered. "Pidgin make a look-out." He went out and closed the door. "Something happens!" whispered Max. A gong sounded. "Ah!"
Sin Sin Wa gently patted his knees. "She velly bad woman," he declared. "She no hate topside pidgin." "Don't talk!" shouted Kerry. "Fetch her!" Sin Sin Wa turned his hands palms upward. "Me no hate gotchee wifee," he murmured. Kerry took one pace forward. "Fetch her," he said; "or " He drew a pair of handcuffs from the pocket of his oilskin. "Velly bad luck," murmured Sin Sin Wa.
But his special friend was Lieskov, who carried the child about on his back, performed many droll antics to amuse him, and taught him words of pidgin Russian. Among other things he made him a kite a large and beautiful kite out of an old piece of yellow silk, shaped like a butterfly.
Printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society. This 'pidgin English' runs down West Africa, except the Gold Coast and about Accra, where the natives have learnt something better. The principal affirmation is 'Enh, pronounced nanny-goat fashion, and they always answer 'Yes' to a negative question: e.g.
Her hostess, the colonel's amiable wife, was busy on the back gallery leading to the kitchen, deep in counsel with her Filipino major-domo and her Chinese cook, servitors who had been well trained and really needed no instruction, and for that matter got but little, for Mrs. Brent's knowledge of the Spanish tongue was even less than her command of "Pidgin" English.
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