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Updated: May 7, 2025
He had a vision of city beyond city; cities on great plains, cities beside great rivers, vast cities along the sea margin, cities girdled by snowy mountains. Over a great part of the earth the English tongue was spoken; taken together with its Spanish American and Hindoo and Negro and "Pidgin" dialects, it was the everyday-language of two-thirds of humanity.
"As I've heard the story, young Webster was waiting by the river for his boat, with a face as long as you'd hope to see, when a Chinese who'd been watching him from a little distance came up and addressed him in such pidgin English as he could muster and asked after his father. Of course young Webster was taken by surprise, but he returned a civil answer, and the two fell to talking together.
"Pardieu! it is a death trap. What is this!" A loud knocking sounded upon the street door. Ah-Fang-Fu rose and shuffled up the steps into the shop. He could be heard unbarring the outer door. Then: "Too late! shuttee shop, shuttee shop!" sounded. "I don't want nothin' out of your blasted shop, Pidgin!" roared a loud and thick voice. "I'm old Bill Bean, I am, and I want a pipe, I do!"
The Chinaman himself was shocked for a moment out of his Oriental stolidity. A delighted smile spread over his face and he broke into an excited jargon of "pidgin English," of which the refrain was: "Velly glad slee. Wah Lee velly glad slee." Then in a burst of grateful memory he threw himself to the floor and tried to put their feet upon his head, as a token that he was their slave for life.
Such dogs are not easily excited by anything but a chase, and a burglar might come and rob the house and murder the inmates without arousing any excitement among them. Guarding a house is "not their pidgin" as the Chinese say. That is one great reason for the success of the dog at whatever branch of his tribe's work he goes in for he is so thorough.
"A retired Chinese sailor called Ah-Fang-Fu, but better known as 'Pidgin. His establishment is called locally 'The Pidgin House." "Ah." The Commissioner lighted a cigarette. "And you know of no other house which might be selected for such a purpose as I have mentioned?" "I can't say I do, sir.
"No, no," said Sin Sin Wa. "He is a brave man; he comes alone." He paused, and then suddenly resumed in pidgin English: "You likee killa him, eh?" Perhaps unconscious that she did so, Mrs. Sin replied also in English: "No, I am mad. Let me think, old fool!" She dropped the stiletto and raised her hand dazedly to her brow. "You gotchee tired of knifee chop, eh?" murmured Sin Sin Wa. Mrs.
"Comee here," he muttered, "my placee, all full up and no other placee b'long open." Bill Bean slapped him boisterously on the back. "Cut the palaver, Pidgin, and gimme a pipe. Piecee pipe, Pidgin!" He lurched across the floor, nearly falling over Stuart's legs, took up a mat and a cushion, lurched into the further corner and cast himself down.
As he leaned over the counter, scrutinising his visitors, Max thrust forward the golden scorpion held in the palm of his hand. "Hoi, hoi" chattered the Chinaman. "Fo-Hi fellers, eh? You hab got plenty much late. Other fellers Fo-Hi pidgin plenty much sooner. You one time catchee allee same bhobbery, b'long number one joss-pidgin man!"
I handed him a card as I spoke, and suddenly addressing him in "pidgin," of which, fortunately, I had a smattering: "Belong very quick, Ah Tsong," I said, sharply, "or plenty big trouble, savvy?" "Sabby, sabby," he muttered, nodding his head; and leaving me standing in the porch he retired along the sparsely carpeted hall.
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