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The compradore grinned, and in a tone of great unconcern called out that the pair were not in the garden. "Walkee so." He pointed down the passage to the main gate, and hooked his thumb toward the right, to indicate their course. "Makee finish, makee die now," he added calmly; "too muchee, no can." Rudolph experienced his first shock of terror, like an icy blow on the scalp.
"No make, hully walkee velly slow over lit' blidge," ping, ping, ping, ping, pang, pang. The little bridge was just behind us, and I grasped all he said that we were to go slowly over the bridge and walk round the back of the house, while he would go round the front and meet us on the other side.
An affirmative grunt. "Le Grand Diable did you see him?" At that name, his white teeth snapped shut, and from the depths of the Indian's throat came the vicious snarl of an enraged wolf. "Come," I coaxed, "tell me. How long since you left the Sioux?" "Walkee walkee walkee one sleep," and rising, he enacted a hobbling gait across the cabin in unison with the rhythmic utterance of his words.
W. Keyse, Esquer, in caligraphy that began in the top left-hand corner, and trickled gradually down into the right-hand bottom one. Pumping the Celestial was no use. John Tow sabee'd only that a fair foreign devil gave the one missive, with a tikkie for delivery, and 'spose one time Tow makee plenty good walkee back with anulla paper some pidgin bime-bye catchee more tikkie.
No recreation for this people. Work, work, work! They never play, never smile, but plod away, from early morning until late at night. The Chinaman's objection to giving his creditor in New York a note was because it "walkee, walkee alle timee; walkee, walkee, no sleepee." They seem to me to emulate these objectionable obligations.
He pointed to two figures, more dead than alive, chittering with cold. Le Borgne's foxy eye took on a stolid look. "White men lost in the snow," said he, "white-man from the big white canoe come walkee walkee one two three sleep watchee good Indian friend fort!"
"Poor itty sing," crooned Aunt Hannah, who, having divested herself of bonnet and gloves, came hurriedly forward with outstretched hands. "Do they just 'buse 'em? Come here to your old auntie, sweetems, and we'll go walkee. I saw a bow-wow such a tunnin' ickey wickey bow-wow on the steps when I came in. Come, we go see ickey wickey bow-wow?"
"Ching see now," peng, peng, peng "bad men with swords," pang, peng "look velly closs," pang, pong "wantee fightee," pang, pang "you no wantee fightee," pung, pung. "No," I whispered anxiously; "let's go at once." "No takee notice," pang, peng, peng. "All flee, walkee walkee round one sidee house," pang, pong "Ching go long other sidee," peng, peng.
You come walkee walkee 'gain?" "It's not very tempting, Ching," I said. "Why can't they leave us alone?" He tightened his lips and shook his head. Then, looking sharply before him, he hurried us along a little more. "Wish got ten twenty piecee soldier man 'longside," he whispered to me, and the next minute he grasped my arm with a spasmodic snatch. "What's the matter?" I said.
In journeying across the empire we found sufficient analogy in the various provincial dialects to enable us to acquire a smattering of one from another as we proceeded, but we were now unable to see any similarity whatever between “You makee walkee look see,” and “You go and see,” or between “That belong number one pidjin,” and “That is a first-class business.” This jargon has become a distinct dialect on the Chinese coast.
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