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Updated: May 21, 2025
A limited vocabulary means that each word shall be overworked. Thus, fella, in beche de mer, means all that piecee does and quite a bit more, and is used continually in every possible connection. Another overworked word is belong. Nothing stands alone. Everything is related. The thing desired is indicated by its relationship with other things.
"Been havin' a pipe, Sin?" he asked, winking at his companion. "I can smell something like opium!" "No smokee opium," murmured Sin Sin Wa complacently. "Smokee Woodbine." "Ho, ho!" laughed the other constable. "I don't think." "You likee tly one piecee pipee one time?" inquired the Chinaman. "Gotchee fliend makee smokee." The man who had poked the fire slapped his companion on the back.
"H'm!" muttered Drake under his breath to Frobisher; "I don't much like the look of this. It seems as though something had miscarried, for this fellow to come out here at this time of night, with a `big piecee news'. I suppose there is no doubt the beggar really has a message of some sort for us, so I'll have to let him come aboard.
"She's gone," repeated Captain Kneebone. "No boat for us." But the compradore, dragging his bundle of sharp halberds, poked an inquisitive head out past the captain's, and peered on all sides through the smoke, with comical thoroughness. He dodged back, grinning and ducking amiably. "Moh bettah look-see," he chuckled; "dat coolie come-back, he too muchee waitee, b'long one piecee foolo-man."
"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.
"You likee bit piecee flesh meat?" "What is it?" I said, looking hard at the rather tempting brown meat with its white fat. "Velly nice," he said. "Got pep' salt. Velly good." "Yes," I said; "but is it good? I mean something I should like to eat?" "Yes; loast lit' piggee; velly nice." He was quite right it was; and after I had finished I went forward to see if I could get something to drink.
"Ching get one piecee boat low all aboard ship." "Can't you keep us in your place till our boat comes?" The man shook his head. "Mandalin boy come burn um down, makee all lun out. So velly hot. No stay. Get boat, low away." "How far is it, do you think?" asked Smith. "I don't know," said Barkins. "We seemed to be walking for hours in the hot sun coming up. How far is it, Ching?" "Velly long way.
"Two pipe quick," he said. "Plenty room. Two piecee pipe or plenty heap trouble." A dreary voice from one of the bunks came: "Give 'im a pipe, Charlie, curse yer! an' stop 'is palaver." Yan performed a curious little shrug, rather of the back than of the shoulders, and shuffled to the box which bore the smoky lamp.
But all was silent, and he could see some of the shadowy forms of the men on guard. It was then half-past eleven, as he found by looking at his watch, and too late to go to sleep again, even if he felt inclined. Precisely half an hour later a figure appeared at the door of the tent, and a voice observed quietly: "Time to wake up, mastel. You tellee me wake you one piecee time twelluf.
There was once a sea captain who needed a dusky potentate down in his cabin. The potentate was on deck. The captain's command to the Chinese steward was "Hey, boy, you go top-side catchee one piecee king."
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