po'sson

Updated: May 17, 2025

"Mais, vous don' lai moi t'ree franc, oui, oui," answered the Chinese. "Moi don'lai canaque po po'sson." The governor had led in the chorus of sácres and diables. All at the table were of the redingote family, all feeding from the national trough at Paris, and they had the courage and power to end the damnable imposition on the slender purses of Papeete citizens. Sapristi! this robbery must cease.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.