wantchee

Updated: May 8, 2025

All of a sudden I heard a noise, heard someone fall, looked round and beheld T'ong, perspiration pouring down his back and front. "Oh, master, this b'long velly much bobbery. I makee velly frightened. I think p'laps master wantchee makee run away." And then, after a time: "You no wantchee catch 'chow'?" "Chow?" No, I could easily have gone without food for that night.

Edwin John Dingle - Across China on Foot

But he puts it in a cupboard when he goes out, and it never talks unless it can see a light." Bolts were unfastened and the door was opened. Out through the moving curtain of fog shone the red glow from a stove. A grotesque silhouette appeared outlined upon the dim redness. "You wantchee me?" crooned Sin Sin Wa. "I do!" rapped Kerry. "I've called to look for opium."

Sax Rohmer - Dope