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Updated: May 3, 2025
"My have got chance," announced Tsang emphatically, "you bet how fashion my talkee you, your money come back." Reynolds studied the brass knocker of a face, but found no clue to the riddle. "What you mean, Tsang?" he asked. "What do you know? For the Lord's sake don't fool with me about it!" "Me no fool," declared Tsang. "You le' me talkee number, him win big heap money." "But how do you know?"
He said, "Looksee b'long all same Chinaman, no savez talkee." The Pekingese are very discriminative and frequently condescendingly refer to all other Chinese as "outside men" or "foreigners."
"Cudjoe, on seeing us, asked in an angry tone what we wanted, and Rob spoke to him as he had done to the other people. `Den you keep quiet, buccra, he said, turning to me; `I no hab laffee or talkee. I assured him that I would remain as still as a mouse; and with a growl he retired again inside the hut, where he seated himself in front of a huge tom-tom, the African drum, and began slowly to beat it, chanting at the same time one of his native songs, I concluded.
"Oh Massa Geral, for Hebben's sake no talkee dat. It berry long time ago, and break poor nigger heart to tink ob it " "But I insist on knowing," returned Gerald loudly and peremptorily; "were you old enough to recollect the curse that poor heart-broken woman, Ellen Halloway, uttered on all our race, and if so what was it?" "No, Massa Geral, I no sabby dat.
In answer the celestial bowed low, then turned and left the room. While the ranchmen and Mrs. Wilder made themselves comfortable in chairs, the boys squatted or stretched out on the piazza, their restlessness proclaiming the expectancy with which they awaited the "heap talkee" Nails desired to impart. The cowboy soon appeared, and, after seating himself at Mr.
I told Susan if I were a boatman I should try hard to save money enough to buy her sister-in-law, and asked her price. "No sellee you; sellee goodee Chinaman two hundred dollars." This was said as a great boast, as the ordinary price for one in her station is only ninety dollars. Our guide turned up his lip in scorn and whispered to me, "She talkee with mouthee too muchee; ninety dollar plenty."
When he came into my office to see me the first time, he rushed forward and impulsively grasped my hand, saying: "My name Ah Lee you Doctor Plitzjellie?" That was the way my name sounded as he spoke it. I was glad to see him, and told him so. "You makee Christian newspaper? You talkee Jesus? Mr. Taylor tellee me. Me Christian me love Jesus."
I awoke just at daylight, and was sitting with Kallolo at the bow of our strange craft, over the stem of which the tack was made fast. He was employed in looking out ahead. Quacko, his constant companion, was in his arms, and I was amusing myself by talking to the monkey. "He no understand your lingo, Massa Guy," observed Kallolo. "Talkee as I do, and he know what you say."
That evening as Sing was serving Virginia's supper he asked her if she had recognized their visitor of the afternoon. "Why no, Sing," she replied, "I never saw him before." "Sh!" admonished the celestial. "No talkee so strong, wallee have ear all same labbit." "What do you mean, Sing?" asked the girl in a low voice. "How perfectly weird and mysterious you are.
"Soon talkee English well as Den 'self." The little fellow, as he walked alongside his tall friend, gazed with astonishment at all he saw, and when he came near the public buildings which though unpretending edifices enough, were of gigantic size compared with any structures he had seen he opened his eyes and inquired how men could ever manage to put them together.
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