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Ned pulled a handful of money out of his pocket, at the sight of which the old chap's little eyes glistened and he smiled more genially; but, he shook his head. "No one piecee take can do," he said sorrowfully, as if it went to his heart to refuse it. "Talkee, talkee no bono, mi takee Pekin chop chop, Yang-kei-tze catchee one piecee by by."
"No talkee talkee;" and, making a gesture to us to be very silent, he led us through the back of his shop into a smaller room, closed and fastened the door, and then led us through another into a kind of yard full of boxes and old tea-chests, surrounded by a bamboo paling.
"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.
Pennypoker next devoted herself to the task of civilization, and waged daily warfare with the Chinaman, in her endeavors to convert him to American ways and dress, and Calvinistic theology. "Old lady heap talkee; Wang Kum no care," he used to confide to Louise Everett, after an unusually long and tedious fray. "Wang min' Miss Lou; old lady too flesh."
Maybe Saclimento maybe San Flancisco. No got time talkee, now." "Look, the water is up to the top of the old stone pier," said one of the others. "Mammy Kate's 'ghost' would have a hard time haunting it now," I laughed. "He'd be under twenty feet of water." "What ghost?" "Why, the tollkeeper's, of the old bridge. The one who hated the Indians so." "The Bear River tribe?"
The younger generation, and especially the girls, will occasionally pose for you, and a truly picturesque group they make in their queer mannish dress of bright colors, as they laugh and chatter in their odd but musical jargon. A few years ago you could not persuade a Chinaman to talk into a telephone, for, as one of them said, "No can see talkee him," meaning he could not see the speaker.
Just as they were ready to rise from the table Hop Joy glided in. "Nail, he backee," he announced. "Say he got heap talkee." "Tell him to come round to the veranda," ordered Mr. Wilder. "By the way, how are you coming along with the cooking, Hop Joy?" "Allee lightee. Bymeby, two hours maybe." "Well, don't be any longer. The sooner Ned can start, the sooner he'll reach the Pool."
He vowed and declared that the lactometer "no talkee true," and that no water whatever had been added to the milk, adding, that if I did not believe him he would bring a cow to the kitchen door and I could see it milked myself.
You hear some talkee 'bout big battle, maybe so? You think catchee General De Vega, senor? Yes? No? "'How's that, Sambo? says I. 'Big battle? What battle? Who wants catchee General De Vega? I've been up at my old gold mines in the interior for a couple of months, and haven't heard any news.
"P'lhaps," interrupted the messenger, "p'lhaps the pleeceman can talkee." "If he can, let him speak," cried Edgar, with impatience. "Pleece he nevir too muchee quick," returned the man, coolly. "We knows what we's can do. Hai, yach!" Edgar sat down with a sharp sigh of discontent, and waited for more. "Well?" "Well," repeated the policeman, "there be steam-boat here now go for Borneo quick."
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