alifornia 
 
 
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 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES

 
 
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH SING-SONG.
 
 TlilNTRD BY HAI.I.ANTVNE, HANSON AND CO. 
 F.DINBtlKfiH AND LONDON
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH SING-SONG 
 
 SONGS AND STORIES 
 
 IN 
 
 THE CHINA-ENGLISH DIALECT. 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES G. LELAND. 
 
 LONDON: 
 TRUBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 
 
 1876. 
 {All rights reserved. ]
 
 PS 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 INTRODUCTION 1 
 
 HINTS TO THK READER 10 
 
 BALLADS. 
 
 WANG-TI 15 
 
 MARY COE 24 
 
 SLANG- WHANG 28 
 
 PING-WING 29 
 
 CAPTAIN BROWN . . . . . . . .31 
 
 A-LUM THE BAKER 39 
 
 WANG THE SNOB . . . .42 
 
 AHONG AND THE MUSQUITO 48 
 
 CONFUCIUS AND LA-OU-TSZE 52 
 
 THE CAT 56 
 
 THE REBEL PIG 59 
 
 THE GREEN-TEA LAND 63 
 
 MY HEART AND GONG 65 
 
 PHOVERBS 66 
 
 L'OISEAU . . .68 
 
 THE PRINCESS IN TARTARY 69 
 
 THE RAT .73 
 
 THE PIGEON 74 
 
 1927150
 
 Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 PJMM 
 
 LITTLE JACK HORNER 75 
 
 THE TOYMAN'S SONG 76 
 
 CAPTAIN JONES 77 
 
 THK BALLAD OF WING-KING-WO .... 80 
 
 STORIES. 
 
 CAPTAIN JONES AND THE ARROW .... 89 
 CAPTAIN JONES AND HIS MEDICINE-CHEST ... 90 
 
 THE OBEDIENT SERVANT .92 
 
 HOWQUA AND THE PEARLS . . . . .94 
 
 THE COW AND THE COMPRADORE .... 96 
 
 THE CHINESE AND THE JEW . . . 98 
 
 THE WOOLLY HEN AND THE RED GOOSE . . . 100 
 
 THE TALKING DUCKS 103 
 
 THE LITTLE WIFE 107 
 
 FIRE AND RIVER 110 
 
 NORVAL 112 
 
 EXCELSIOR 114 
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY 119 
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH NAMES 137
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IDGIN-ENGLISH is that dialect of our 
 language which is extensively used in 
 the seaport towns of China as a means 
 of communication between English or Americans 
 and the natives. In its first and lowest form, 
 as given in the vocabularies published for the 
 use of servants, Pidgin is a very rude jargon, in 
 which English words, strangely distorted, owing 
 to the difficulty of representing their sounds in 
 Chinese writing, are set forth according to the 
 principles of Chinese grammar. It is, in fact, 
 word - for - word translation, with very little 
 attempt at inflection or conjugation, as such 
 forms of grammar, as we understand them, do 
 not exist in Chinese. The result of this is natur 
 ally that as the vocabulary is very limited, a 
 Chinese learns Pidgin-English with no more 
 difficulty than is 'presented by acquiring a few 
 hundred words, the pronunciation and grammar of
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 which have been modified to suit those of his own 
 language. In this it corresponds exactly with the 
 posh an' posh, or corrupt Eommany dialect spoken 
 by English gipsies, in which Hindi-Persian words 
 follow the English structure. 
 
 It is owing to the ease with which Chinese 
 learn this dialect, and the willingness of foreigners 
 to meet them half way in it, that it has spread to 
 such an incredible extent, thereby leading the 
 way towards making English the language of 
 the Pacific. And as Chinese learn a Latin tongue 
 more easily than pure English, it is probable that 
 had it not be.en for the Pidgin jargon, a corrupt 
 Portuguese would have formed the popular medium 
 of communication between foreigners and natives 
 in China.- The number of Portuguese words which 
 now exist in Pidgin-English seem to prove this. 
 As it is, our language in this rude form has spread, 
 and is spreading to such a remarkable extent as 
 to suggest several important problems. The 
 coolie who speaks Pidgin has half his apprehen 
 sion as to getting on in a foreign country removed, 
 and the anticipated immigration of " millions of 
 the Mongolian race " is beginning to cause serious 
 reflection in America. Therefore Mr Simpson 
 looks forward to a time when it will be necessary 
 to issue the Scriptures in Pidgin, and Captain
 
 IN TROD UC TION. 
 
 Richard Burton gravely remarks in his " Ultima 
 Thule," that " if English, as appears likely, 
 is to become the cosmopolitan language of com 
 merce, it will have to borrow from Chinese as 
 much monosyllable, and as little inflection as 
 possible. The Japanese," he adds, " have already 
 commenced the systematic process of 'pidgeoning,' 
 which for centuries has been used on the West 
 African coast, in Jamaica, and in fact throughout 
 tropical England, Hindostan alone excepted." 
 
 The word pidgin, if derived, as is generally sup 
 posed, from the English word business, indicates 
 the difficulty with which Chinese master our 
 pronunciation. It is also characteristic of the 
 jargon, from the incredible variety of meanings 
 which it assumes. As the term wallah in Hindu, 
 and that of engro in Rommany, are applicable to 
 any kind of active agent, so pidgin is with great 
 ingenuity made expressive of every variety of 
 calling, occupation, or affair. As business or com 
 merce is the great bond of union between the 
 Chinese and foreign residents, it is not remarkable 
 that this should be the chief and ever-recurring 
 word, and give its name to the language formed 
 in its service. 
 
 Pidgin-English, "pure and simple," is found, 
 according to a writer in the " Pall Mall Gazette,"
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 only in the native vocabularies published for the 
 benefit of compradores and servants entering the 
 service of English masters. One specimen of this 
 class of work is a little volume of twelve or fifteen 
 pages, and 'is entitled " A Vocabulary of Words 
 in Use among the Red-Haired People." Its outer 
 cover is adorned with a full-length portrait of one 
 of the red-haired race dressed in the costume of 
 the Georgian period, in breeches and stockings, 
 and armed with stick and sword." l 
 
 The difficulty which a Chinese experiences in 
 mastering, the English pronunciation may be 
 inferred from the fact that in this book brother 
 (elder) is expressed by pat-lut-ta, youngest brother 
 
 1 Apropos of this vocabulary, my father-in-law, the late Rodney 
 Fisher of Philadelphia, who was for many years resident in 
 China, often related the following. One day calling for his 
 compradore, who did not make his appearance, Mr Fisher over 
 hauled a youth called a larn-pidgin, or apprentice, of the class 
 who are admitted by favour of the regular servants to learn 
 what, they can of waiting. This tyro, not being able to reply, 
 in great alarm led Mr Fisher to a lower room where a number 
 of his fellow-sub-servants were seated, each with the vocabulary 
 open before him. To one of these he communicated what was 
 wanted, whereupon the superior scholar, turning with incredible 
 dexterity and rapidity from leaf to leaf, read out the following 
 sentence: " He-larn-pidgin-talkee-that-complador-belongey-out- 
 side-ko-hom soon. " The terror, real or assumed, of the scholar, 
 coupled with this extraordinary manner of conversation under 
 difficulties, set Mr Fisher in:o a peal of laughter, which was 
 promptly echoed of course by all the assembled Spelling Bee.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 5 
 
 by yang-shi-lut-ta, uncle by yang-ki, and husband 
 by ha-sze-man. The almost insuperable tendency 
 to pronounce r as I appears in ki-lin for green, 
 lin for rain, and lilt for red d being also a terrible 
 piece de resistance in the native mouth. But no 
 China boy remains faithful to these barbarous 
 words, and he very soon improves Jci-lin into 
 Jcleen or gleen, lin to lain, and lilt to led at which 
 point he long remains stationary. It follows, of 
 course, that there is no settled standard of Pidgin- 
 English, and that anything may correctly claim 
 to be in that dialect, so that it represents English 
 as spoken by a Chinese with some national varia 
 tion from the English standard. I call special 
 attention to this fact, since among the ballads 
 and prose of this volume there are some which 
 illustrate low-class Pidgin as used by common 
 people, while several of the songs must be under 
 stood as coming from a Chinese who, having 
 made much greater progress in English, is 
 desirous of writing it. Unless this allowance be 
 fairly made, those who only know Pidgin-English 
 from its more imperfect utterances will be in 
 clined to think that in several instances I have 
 introduced too many English words and " first- 
 chop " phrases. I may, however, be allowed to 
 plead per contra that two distinguished Anglo-
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Chinese scholars, Professor E. K. Douglas and H. 
 A. Giles, with other proficients who have paid 
 much attention to Pidgin-English, were so kind 
 as to take great interest in this work while it was 
 in progress, aiding me by correction, criticism, and 
 contribution of material of every kind, and that 
 they consider the language of the songs and stories 
 as generally appropriate and correct. 
 
 Pidgin, it may be observed, is now the generally 
 accepted spelling of the word in the Anglo- 
 Chinese newspapers. The dialect is very exten 
 sively spoken on the whole sea-board of China, 
 and in the Straits; nor is it unknown in India, 
 while its use is rapidly extending to the interior. 
 It may be true, as Professor Douglas observes, that 
 " of late English masters and mistresses in China 
 are beginning to learn Chinese, and that gram 
 mars, dictionaries, and vocabularies in the local 
 dialects are now beginning to find their way into 
 houses into which they have never hitherto been 
 admitted;" while, "on the other hand, a generation 
 of Chinamen is growing up which has learned to 
 speak English grammatically." Yet as real Pidgin- 
 English is, after all, only Chinese, both as to 
 structure and sound, with English words, it is 
 evident that scores of common people will acquire 
 it where one will learn English correctly. It is
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 a curious fact, which has been observed by three 
 of my friends Messrs Giles, Simson, and Ng- 
 Choy that instances occasionally occur in which 
 Chinese from different districts, speaking very 
 different dialects, have recourse to " Pidgin " as a 
 medium of conversation, just as men of different 
 nations in the Levant were at one time wont to 
 use the lingua franca. 
 
 I trust that the critical reader will make allow 
 ance for the difficulty of spelling a jargon for 
 which no standard is established, and which varies 
 with every speaker. One gentleman, many 
 years resident in China, thinks that the word have 
 should be written as in English ; a well-educated 
 native to whom Pidgin was as a boy a step-mother 
 tongue is positive that halt is the popular pro 
 nunciation, while the printed Chinese vocabulary 
 for servants gives hop. The same difficulty is 
 found as to th, which is in the mouth' of a 
 beginner either the Spanish or English d, or a 
 plain t, but which is by many given correctly 
 enough. If I have sometimes given one and 
 sometimes the other pronunciation, it is not 
 through carelessness; and I have done so in 
 such a manner as to illustrate different phases of 
 expression. But actual consistency is rendered 
 impossible by the fact that one man often gives
 
 8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 different sounds to the same letters. The same 
 difficulty exists as to words which are well known 
 to many persons but not to others. A few will 
 be found in this collection which are possibly not 
 familiar to the oldest European proficients in 
 Pidgin. They are all drawn from the Chinese 
 vocabulary already referred to, and are probably 
 known to most Chinese, who, however, soon drop 
 them. 
 
 I have placed at the end of this work the well- 
 known and popular version of "Norval," which first 
 appeared at least forty years ago, and that of 
 "Excelsior" the names of the authors being 
 unknown to me. I have been informed by an 
 American gentleman who has paid attention to 
 the subject, that a Pidgin- French is developing 
 itself in the Chinese ports, but of this I have ob 
 tained no specimens. 
 
 It is not pretended that the language of the 
 rhymes and stories in this volume will all be 
 readily and immediately familiar to any person 
 who may take it in hand, but it is certain that 
 with a very little attention they can all be soon 
 mastered. For those who expect to meet with 
 Chinese, either in the East or California, this 
 little book will perhaps be useful, as qualifying 
 them to converse in Pidgin. There are in all not
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 more than thirty altogether foreign or strange 
 words in ordinary use, and a number of these are 
 familiar to all persons of the least general infor 
 mation. What remains can present no difficulty 
 to any one who can understand negro minstrelsy 
 or baby talk. 
 
 CHARLES G. LELAND.
 
 HINTS TO THE READER. 
 
 HINESE find great difficulty in pronounc 
 ing the letter n, which in their mouths 
 becomes L; therefore the Italic I 
 throughout this book indicates r. This change is 
 not uncommon in English, and in fact most of 
 the peculiarities in the sounds of Pidgin-English, 
 with many of its other variations, will be recog 
 nised by all mothers and nurses. Th is often 
 pronounced correctly enough by Chinese whose 
 English is in other respects very imperfect. But 
 with all beginners, and sometimes with those 
 more advanced, it is either t, d, or the Spanish d. 
 Lo is frequently added for euphony's sake to 
 words ending with a vowel or liquid. It has no 
 meaning. The same is the case with all the 
 vowels, especially in the ee which may at will 
 terminate any word e.g., ctiilo, a child ; clylo, to 
 cry. He, she, or it, may all be expressed, as in 
 Chinese, by he, and they by the same pronoun.
 
 HINTS TO THE READER. I I 
 
 /, me, my, mine, we, our, ours, are included in 
 my. 
 
 If Pidgin-English were strictly reduced to its 
 natural principles, there would be in it neither 
 conjugation nor inflection, singular nor plural. 
 Tense as well as different shades of possession 
 and qualification are expressed by the ingenious 
 use of Tidb, Tidb-got, belongey, catchee, and can do. 
 Thus, " There is a man within," is given "as "Hab 
 got one piecee man room- inside," which is literally 
 translated from the Chinese. Catchee indicates 
 possession or ownership e.g., " He catchee too- 
 muchee dollar," He is very rich. Belongey is a 
 curious application of the English belong to many 
 meanings. Thus, " My belongey China-side," is 
 readily intelligible as meaning " I am a native of 
 China ; " but we find a wide deviation from the 
 original sense in " You belongey too-muchee 
 sassy, galaw," You are indeed too impudent. 
 Can do is a simple expression of ability or power, 
 and is often used as the synonym for yes, while 
 no can do is a favourite negative. By intonation 
 can do is a common form of interrogation 
 e.g., " Can do chow-chow ? " Are you able to 
 eat? 
 
 Almost every form of verbal utterance is set 
 forth by talkee. My talJcee he, may mean I do, did
 
 12 HINTS TO THE READER. 
 
 or will tell him, say to him, ask him, inform him ; 
 while that law talkee so-fashion must be translated 
 " the law expresses itself, or is expressed, thus." 
 
 Maskee means all right, in spite of, notwith 
 standing, but, however, or "anyhow." In the 
 poem " Bamboo " it is used as meaning without. 
 " Maskee that ting my no can do." The native 
 vocabulary gives maskee, " it is all good." Galow, 
 galaw, glow, or gala, has no special meaning, 
 but, like halt in South German and ajd in 
 Rommany, is much used as an intensitive. The 
 same is the case with Ch'hoy ! and Ph'ho ! In 
 many cases it is quite equivalent for indeed. 
 
 "In Chinese," says Professor R. K. Douglas, 
 "there is always inserted between the numeral 
 and the substantive to which it applies, a word 
 which it is customary to call a classifier, since it 
 points to the kind of object represented by the 
 substantive. For example, instead of saying ' two 
 knives,' a Chinaman would say ' two-to-be-held- 
 in-the-hand-knives,' or instead of table he would 
 say ' one-length-table.' These various classifiers 
 the authors of Pidgin- English have melted down 
 into one word, ' piece.' The writer, therefore " (of 
 the " Vocabulary of Words in Use among the 
 Red-Haired Barbarians"), " translates the Chinese 
 equivalent of our indefinite article as one pe-sze,
 
 HINTS TO THE DEADER. 13 
 
 one piece ; and a knife he would render by one 
 pe-sze-nai-fo." Consequently " one piece" in pure 
 Pidgin always sets forth a or an, and in many 
 cases it follows that e.g., "That piecee man no 
 hab catchee dJinko," That man has nothing to 
 drink. 
 
 It should be observed that it is impossible to 
 reduce Pidgin-English, and especially its verbs, to 
 rule. The same man who uses "my talkee he " 
 to intimate that he does, did, or will speak to 
 another, may in the next breath elevate his style 
 enough to say, " my hab talkee " and " my go- 
 talkee." In a letter now before me a gentleman 
 to whom I have been indebted for assistance 
 says, " For four years I have conversed all day 
 long in that language [i.e., Pidgin-English], and 
 have found that it varies a good deal, according 
 to every one's fancy." 
 
 He is often substituted for the in Pidgin- 
 English. This possibly originated in the dislike 
 to utter th, which characterises the first stage 
 of transition from Chinese. 
 
 Th, which is often pronounced correctly enough 
 as in English, may be heard at other times as d, 
 t, or t'h, which latter may be regarded as the 
 effort to pronounce correctly, but which results in 
 a rapid succession of t by the aspirate.
 
 1 
 
 ( ^^fU-^P ^^ y ear m y lk-see plum-tee all 
 ^ ll^'lfer flower all- same he snow, 
 
 T'his spZing 1 much plenty snowflake 
 
 all-same he plum-tee blow. 
 He snowflake fallee, meltee, he led leaf 
 
 turnee b/own, 2 
 
 My makee first-chop sing-song how luck go 
 uppy-down. 3 
 
 One tim belongey 4 China-side one student-man 
 
 Wang-ti, 
 He wantchee be one mandarin, he wantchee gettee 
 
 high. 
 
 In Forest of he Pencils 5 he hopee name to see, 
 He wantchee go in Gate of Hung 6 an' takee first 
 
 deg/ee. 
 
 1 Spring. * Brown. 
 
 3 These four verses are taken from a Chinese poem. 
 
 4 There was in China. 
 
 5 Hon-lam, the Forest of Pencils, or the highest degree of 
 literary graduates. 
 
 6 Cho-yap-hung-moon (Canton), entering the Gate of Hung, 
 i.e., obtaining the first degree in the school of Confucius.
 
 1 6 WANG-TI. 
 
 Suppose one man no catchee cash, he no can play 
 at game, 
 
 Supposey pigeon no hab wing, can no make fly all- 
 same. 
 
 Wang-ti he tly fly-up-can-go, 1 he workee hard for 
 some, 
 
 But all-same one fire-/ocket stick he makee fly-down- 
 come. 2 
 
 But bat by night may blongey, b/ight-sun, 3 a butterfly. 
 One tim you catchee angel s'pose you look-see devil 
 
 kwei. 4 
 Wang-ti no pass he no can do he no can catch 
 
 degZee, 
 You make ear-hear, I talkee how t'his all come good 
 
 fo' he. 
 
 One night Wang-ti go walkee he feel like loney 
 
 goose ; 
 How allo study, 'm-chung-yung 5 he never hit t'he 
 
 use. 
 How some man pass an' catch degree while he stick 
 
 fass' behind, 
 Like one big-piecee lock 6 while waves fly pass' him 
 
 on t'he wind. 
 
 1 To rise, an ascent. 
 
 2 Fe-lok-loy, fly-down-come, a descent or fall. 
 
 3 Bright-sun, mingy at, i.e., to-morrow. 4 Kwei, a devil. 
 8 'M-ckung-yuny, not hit the use, i.e., was useless, or in vain. 
 6 Rock.
 
 WANG-TL I/ 
 
 He tinkee deep, he walk like sleep man-man 1 inside 
 a wood, 
 
 Wat-tim 2 he heafee bobbeZy 3 where olo Joss-house 4 
 stood. 
 
 Wang-ti he tink 'urn devilos an' wantchee walkee 
 wide, 
 
 He neva tink t'hat Joss-house hab got one-man room- 
 inside.* 
 
 Just t'hen he savvy Ia-li-loong 6 -some tief-man muchee 
 
 bad 
 
 Hab wantchee kill one fo/eigner, an' catchee allo had. 
 T'his fan-yun 7 he get knockee-down he look-see colo 8 
 
 clay, 
 But Wang-ti pull he 'volver out an' Zobber-man /un 
 
 'way. 
 
 Wang-ti he pickee stZanger up an' helpee all he can, 
 He find 'urn one young fa-Tce-Tcwok g a flower-flag- 
 
 nation-man. 
 
 Wang-ti he take t'hat Mexican he velly good can do, 
 An' put 'urn in he littee bed an' pay 'um some sam- 
 
 shu. 10 
 
 1 Man-man, slowly. 2 Wat-tim, when. 
 
 3 Bobbely, noise. 4 Joss-house, a temple. 
 
 5 Within, i.e., that anybody was within. 
 
 6 He knew that thieves. 7 Fan-yun, a foreign man. 
 
 8 Cold as clay. 
 
 9 Fa-ke-kwok, flower-flag-nation,'! .e., American. 
 10 Sam-shu, or sam-shoo, rice spirits. 
 
 B
 
 1 8 WANG-TI. 
 
 He Mexican he soon get well an' walk top-side he 
 
 tracks, 1 
 And muchee-much chin-chin 2 Wang-ti fo' all he nicee 
 
 acts. 
 They gettee ftin, 3 so muchee f/in t'hey each belongey 
 
 half; 
 That Yankee name he Doolittle ; he makee photo- 
 
 gZaf. 
 
 If you thfow rice in Ziver, an' liver wailo* flee, 
 
 You sartin sure some mornin' t'hat rice swim down 
 
 to sea. 
 If f/in catch someting inside heart, 5 he not'her ffin 
 
 can know, 
 So Wang-ti talkee Doolittle he tubble an' he woe. 
 
 He talk: "It b'longey my pidgin to study fo' 
 deg/ee, 
 
 My tellee all, galaw, 6 suppose you give ear-hear 7 to 
 me; 
 
 My wantchee be one first-class man an' pass examina 
 tion." 
 
 " I see," said Mister Doolittle ; " you missed it r like 
 
 . darnation." 
 
 1 Top-side his tracks, on his footprints, i.e., upright. 
 
 2 Chin-chin, revere, thank. 3 Flin, friend. 
 4 Wailo, goes away, runs. 5 In his mind. 
 
 6 Galaw, a meaningless word. 
 
 7 Ne-pee-ee-to-teny, you give ear-hear, i.e., listen.
 
 WANG-TI. IQ 
 
 "Now," talk Wang-ti, "t'hat Tai-fo-neen 1 he com 
 ing found again, 
 
 Suppose my no pull ihloo dis tim my life be allo 
 vain, 
 
 My be all-same one 16 flower wat-tim he fadee 
 dead." 2 
 
 " That ain't the way," said Doolittle j " I vum to go 
 ahead." 
 
 " In olo tim," talk he Wang-ti, " man p/intee littee 
 
 book, 
 Man hide 'um in he pigtail or some-side hookey- 
 
 cZook. 3 
 T'hat book belongey Classics, but Government be 
 
 pat, 
 An' talk he killee p/inta-man wat makee book like 
 
 t'hat. 4 
 
 " Suppose my catch dat littee book to hide in my pig 
 tail, 
 
 My'd walk chop-chop 5 light thfoo Fo-shee 6 for my 
 could neva fail. 
 
 1 Tai-fo-nin (or neen), the great examination year, when the 
 Kuy-yun degrees are conferred. 
 ' 2 Like a lily when faded. 
 
 3 Hookey-clook, by hook or by crook. Like the Indian Baboos, 
 Chinese sometimes attempt such phrases. 
 
 4 I am informed by a Chinese friend that the penalty extends 
 to the students who attempt to use such hidden helps. 
 
 5 Chop-chop, speedily. 
 
 6 Fo-shee, examination in the last of the three years.
 
 2O WANG-TL 
 
 T'hen my belongey big tampan 1 an' muchee happy 
 
 too." 
 "I vum!" 2 said Mister Doolittle, "I'll fix that 
 
 thing for you. 
 
 " I s'pose when you're examined, if 'tisn't all my eye, 
 They let you wear your spectacles?" "They do," 
 
 say poor Wang-ti. 
 " Wall, then," say Mister Doolittle, " if you expect to 
 
 pass, 
 You've got to get yourself a pair of magnifyin' glass. 
 
 " And secondly, about them books you want for your 
 
 degree, 
 J can photograph the Scriptures complete inside a 
 
 pea. 
 In fact I've seen the London 'Times' and that's 
 
 exactly true 
 On the leetle end of nothin' and read it easy too. ' 
 
 "And if the thing will help you if nothin' else 
 avails, 
 
 I'll photograph them Classics upon your finger-nails ; 
 
 I see you wear 'em awful long (for gougin', I sup 
 pose) 
 
 I'd put the Astor Library upon such nails as those." 
 
 1 Tai-pan, head-man, boss (a slang expression). 
 
 2 Vum, vow (Yankee).
 
 WANG-TI. 21 
 
 I think the stuff is in us so, by gum, let's put it 
 
 through ! 
 We'll ring into them College dons and mighty 
 
 han'some, too ; 
 And you shall shine as Number One and do the thing 
 
 first-chop, 
 And be the Grand Panjandrum with a button on 
 
 your top. 
 
 T'hey catchee book t'hey muchee work t'hey 
 
 keepee awful mum. 
 T'he books of olo Kung-fou-tsze 1 were all on "Wang-ti's 
 
 t'hum. 
 He blessy goodee Mexican t'hat day t'hey makee 
 
 f/ins 
 When allo larnin t'hat he wantch' 2 was at he finga- 
 
 ins. 
 
 On t'he eight' day of he eight' moon gZate bobbeZy 
 
 hab been , 
 
 Fo' G/and Examination wdt 'um call he Tai-fo-neen. 
 T'hey look-see allo student-men insidee he pigtail, 
 But neva tink of littee spots on Wang-ti's finga-nail. 
 
 He look-see muchee innocen', he look-see muchee wise, 
 Hab catch one piece new spectacle t'hat sit top-side 
 he eyes. 
 
 1 Kung-fou-tsze, Confucius. 
 
 2 Wantch' for wantchee, waut.
 
 22 WANG-TI. 
 
 T'hey lock 'urn up in littee house ilee day till allo 
 
 done, 
 An' t'hen Wang-ti come out Tai-pai l first-chop an' 
 
 Numpa One ! 
 
 Wang-ti hab got t'hat ting masJcee 2 Wang-ti he 
 
 mighty g/and, 
 
 He go top-side all-not'ha in allo China land. 
 But allo tim no man can tell or savvy what it meant 
 How Doolittle catch contracts f7om he China Gove/n- 
 
 ment. 
 
 MOEAL-PIDGIK 
 
 My sposey sometim, one tim you hab cuss-um poor 
 
 Chinee, 
 
 It b'longy betta makee f/in t'han catch one inimy. 
 You makee my one iron-face my tink you betta 
 
 tly 
 
 To do all-same he Doolittle long-side he fftn Wang-ti. 
 
 S'pose you much smart an' he much smart my neva 
 
 makee joke, 
 You betta make all-same, you two, to cheatee ot'ha 
 
 folk. 
 Chinee an' Yankee in one firm could squeezee whole 
 
 worl' dly : 
 Dis my g/ate moZal-pidgin of he sto/y of Wang-ti. 
 
 1 Tai-pai, first ; slangily, boss. 
 
 2 Maskee, anyhow, despite opposition, all right.
 
 WANG-TI. 23 
 
 NOTE. My no savvy dat man Wang-ti, no can talkee sup- 
 posey dis be pukkha stoZy. Wat-tim Massa Zeed my dis sing 
 song, my talk he, " No pZintee dat befo' you tinkee-Zeason 
 top-side 'um. S'posey dat sing-song go China-side more dan 
 tZee handirt millium Chinee get he nailos specklum an' go fo' 
 examination. Allo he China Government wailo devilo top-side- 
 bottom-side. No man makee good-pidgin outside allo dat 
 bobbeZy, 'cept he one photogZaph-man or one look-see-speckle- 
 man." But Massa makee vetty much bad-hearttalk he pZintee 
 allo-same. My no tinkee he so bad-heart-man. 
 
 AH CHDNQ. 
 
 P.S. Any gentleum dat look-see dis, who savvy how to make 
 photogZaphs, an' wantchee give lesson cheapee, may catchee one 
 scholar, s'posey he Zite to my 'dress. Also s'posey any man 
 wantchee sell or consign magnifyum look-see speckles, he can 
 hearee of one piecee gentleum who go China-side, fo' long.
 
 N he city of Whampo' 
 
 Lib Joss-pidgin-man l name Coe. 
 Massa Coe, he missionary, 
 Catchee one cow-chilo 2 Ma7y. 
 
 Fata-man 3 he /eadee book, 
 Mafy talkee wit'h he cook ; 
 Good olo fata talkee Josh, 
 China-cook he talkee bosh. 
 
 All-day he Ma/y stand and talk, 
 Or go outside wit'h cook to walk ; 
 She wantchee much to helpee him, 
 An' talkee Pidgin allo-tim. 
 
 By'mby t'hat Ma?y gettee so, 
 He only talkee Pidgin g'low.* 
 An' fata so//y to look-see, 
 She tinkee-/eason like Chinee. 
 
 1 Jots-pidgin-man, clergyman. 
 
 2 Cow-chilo, girl (obsolete). 3 Father. 
 4 G'low, galaw, a meaningless interjection.
 
 MARY COE. 2$ 
 
 One piecee flin l flora Boston come 
 One day to findee Coe at home, 
 He shaman 2 wailo 3 open door, 
 But Ma/y Am chop-chop before. 
 
 T'hat gentleum talkee when he come, 
 " Is Mister Coe, my dear, at home ? " 
 An' Ma/y talk he, velly the, 
 " My tinkee dis tim no can do. 
 
 " He olo fata still as mouse, 
 He chin-chin Joss top-sidee house. 
 Allo-tim he make Joss-pidgin, 
 "What you fan-kwei cally ligion." 
 
 T'hat gentleum much stare galow 
 To hea/ee girley talkee so, 
 He say, " Dear child, may I inquire 
 Which form of faith you most admire ? 
 
 An' Ma/y answer he Request, 
 " My like Chinee Joss-pidgin best ; 
 My love Kwan-Yin 4 wit'h chilo 5 neat, 
 An' Joss-stick smellum muchee sweet. 
 
 " Afong our olo cook, down-stair, 
 He teachee Ma/y Chinee p/ayer, 
 
 1 Friend. 2 Shaman, servant (unusual). 3 Wailo, went. 
 4 Kwan-Yin, the Chinese goddess of Mercy, represented as 
 holding an infant. 5 Chilo, child.
 
 26 MARY COS. 
 
 Talk if my chin-chin Fo, ch'hoy ! 1 
 Nex' tim my born, my bornee boy. 
 
 An' t'hen my catchee, nicey new, 
 A 'ittle dacket towsers, too, 
 An' Zun about wit'h allo boys 
 In bu'ful boots 'at makee noise." 
 
 Tear come in he gentleum eyes, 
 An' t'hen he anger 'gin to Zise ; 
 He wailo 2 scoldee Massa Coe 
 For 'glectin' littee Ma/y so. 
 
 An' Massa Coe feel velly sore, 
 An' go an' scold he compZadore ; 
 An' compZadore all ho//or 3 shook, 
 iun downy stairs an' bang 'he cook. 
 
 An' worsey allo-allo pain, 
 Mafy go Boston homo 'gain ; 
 No fi/ee cZacker 4 any more, 
 Nor talk wit' cook an' compZadore. 
 
 MORAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 If Boston girley be let go, 
 She sartin sure to b'lieve in Fo ; 5 
 An' he nex' piecee in he plan, 
 Is to Zun Zound an' act like man. 
 
 1 " Tells me if I pray to Budda-ha, ha ! " 2 Wailo, went. 
 3 Hollor, horror. 4 Fire crackers. 5 Fo, Buddha.
 
 MARY COE. 27 
 
 So, littee chilos, mindee look, 
 An' neva talkee wit' t'he cook ; 
 Fo' if you do, firs' ting you know, 
 You catchee fits like MaZy Coe. 
 
 NOTE. Dis one muchee pukkha J sto?y my tell Massa 'bout 
 he littee MaZy all-same my no hab tinkee he can do one 
 piecee sing-song 'bout 'um. But one ting no be pukkha. Wat-tim 
 Massa talkee my to makee one piecee MoZal-Pidgin, my say 
 
 " Suppose you bad, you hab to go 
 To Boston, all-same Ma?.y Coe." 
 
 Massa he talkee, " Boston-man no likee dat pidgin : Bos'on- 
 man too muchee good to my." So Massa makee he sing-song 
 as belongey, an' my makee dis note as belongey. 
 
 AH CHUNG. 
 
 1 Pukkha, true.
 
 3 LANG-WHANG, he Chinaman 
 
 Catchee school in Yangtsze-Kiang, 
 He larn-pidgin sit top-side gZoun', 
 
 An' feedee lesson upside down, 
 
 Wit'h Yatsh-ery patsh-ery, snap an' sneeze, 
 
 So fash' he chilo feed Chinese. 
 
 Slang- Whang, when makee noise, 
 Wit'h he pigtail floggee allo boys, 
 Allo this pidgin much tim go, 
 What tim good olo Empefer Slo. 
 An' no more now in Yangtsze-Kiang 
 Hab got one teacher good like Slang.
 
 ING-WING he pie-man son, 
 
 He velly worst chilo allo Can-t6n, 
 He steal he mother picklum mice, 
 An th/owee cat in bilin' rice. 
 Hab chow-chow 1 up, an' " Now," talk he, 
 " My wonda' where he meeow cat be ? " 
 
 Ping- Wing he look-see, tinkey fun 
 Two piecee man who shleep in sun, 
 Shleepee sound he yeung-ki, 2 fata, 3 
 Ping tie 'um pigtail allo togata, 
 Then fi/ee cracker an' ofFy fan, 
 T'hat piecee velly bad pie-man son. 
 
 Ping- Wing see gentleum wailo go 
 He scZeamee, " Hal yah fan-Jcwei lo/" 
 All-same you savvy in Chinee, 
 " One foreign devil lookee see ! " 
 
 1 Ate. 2 Uncle (unusual, C.V.) 
 
 3 Fata, father (C.V.)
 
 30 PING- WING. 
 
 But gentleum t'hat pidgin know, 
 He catchee Ping and floggum so, 
 T'hat allo-way Horn that day, maskee 
 He velly good littee Chinee. 
 
 NOTE. Dis no pukkha etoZy. No hab got one so-bad piecee 
 boy allo China-side wat makee so to he fatha. 
 
 AH CHUNG.
 
 Captain Brofon, 
 
 OMETIM you look-see piecee wave he 
 
 walkee mountain-high, 
 Jist t'hen wind knock foam top-side off 
 
 an' blow 'um up to sky. 
 Jist so my heart walk up inside befo' he 
 
 sinkee down 
 My makee foamy sing-song up 'bout olo 
 Captin B/own. 
 
 He b'long one piecee Fa-ke, 1 one flower-flagee-man, 
 We callo so on China-side you callo Me/ican. 
 Chinee make han'some talkee my neva tellee lie 
 He betta sing-song catch inside t'han allo you Fan- 
 kwei. 2 
 
 He Captin B/own he too 3 much nice so good inside 
 
 he can, 
 T'his talkee t'hat of allo men he first-chop good-heart 
 
 man, 
 
 1 i.e., He was an American. 
 
 2 He has more poetry in his soul than all you foreign devils. 
 
 3 Too signifies very in Pidgin- English.
 
 32 CAPTAIN BROWN. 
 
 He piggies wailo 1 afta he t'hat horse long-side he 
 
 sheep, 
 It alway makee Captin cly to hear one chilo weep. 
 
 One day he walk outside Ow-moon t'his talkee 2 
 
 town Macao 
 
 Inside one piecee p/ison he hea/ee awful /ow. 3 
 Some piecee man t'hey scfeamee bad, an' too much cly 
 
 to he, 
 T'hat olo Captin ask chop-chop, " Wat pidgin 4 t'his 
 
 can be ? " 
 
 An' one mafoo 5 he talkee him, while Captin hold he 
 
 b/eath. 
 He all be Tai-ping Zebel man who soon muss catchee 
 
 deat'h, 
 
 An' t'hat he /eason of wat-for he makee such a low, 
 Befo' he gettee head cut off he catchee no chow-chow. 
 
 T'hat p/isoner be most starvee, an' so he sc/eamee 
 
 'way; 
 
 But s'pose he thfow 'um penny, t'hat feed ; um fo' a day. 
 Me so//y say t'hat Captin B/own talk someting velly 
 
 bad, 
 But cly like littee baby an' pay 'em c allo had. 
 
 1 Wailo, go, follow. " This means. 
 
 3 Low, a row, riot. 4 What affair. 
 
 5 Mafoo, horse-boy. 6 Gave them.
 
 CAPTAIN BROWN. 33 
 
 Chop-dolla', f7anc, an' sapek, 1 an' cash of allo sort, 
 All-same one piecee sailee-man 2 he catch in evely 
 
 port, 
 
 He makee one good sailee jerk so nicee as he can, 
 It allo got th/oo winda' to he starvin' pZisona'-man. 
 
 When Captin B/own next Sunday he wailo 3 to Joss- 
 house, 
 He make all-same as allo-tim, 4 he sittee still as mouse ; 
 
 But when he heaZee talkee 'bout captive an' prisoner 
 sad, 
 
 He holler out Response so loud he people tink he 
 mad. 
 
 Now s'posey you make good pidgin to man t'hat 
 
 b'lieve in Fo, 5 
 Sometim you sartin catch 'um back s'pose he be 
 
 dead galow. 
 When allo seem be wailo 'way 6 he sure to catch he 
 
 wish, 
 When you make find one pond dZy up you sure look-see 
 
 t'he fish. 7 
 
 But Captin wailo on all Zight 8 jis' likee t'his sing 
 song, 
 He sail to San F/ancisco, an' forget he la-li-loong ; 9 
 
 1 Sapek, the French word for the common China coin. 
 
 2 Sailee, sailor (sell, C.V.) 3 Wailo, went. 
 
 4 Did as usual. 
 
 5 Suppose you do a kindness to a believer in Buddha. 
 
 6 Gone. 7 Chinese proverb. * Went on all right. 
 9 La-li-loong, the thieves. 
 
 C
 
 34 CAPTAIN BROWN. 
 
 But when he come to Golo Land 1 he solly an' hab 
 
 care, 
 He wantchee catch one chit 2 flora horn, but findee 
 
 no chit t'here. 
 
 He wantchee hear how mata 3 an' he one piece wifey be, 
 He wantchee larn how fata 4 an' chilo all look-see. 
 He catchee plenty tubble inside an' outside too, 
 Man makee longey facey when no savvy wat can do. 
 
 One day he walkee top-side bund, 5 t'here he look-see 
 
 one f/in, 
 Who talk, " ffai yah, my olo boy ! " and askee how he 
 
 been; 
 T'hen Captin B/own tell inside-out wat blongey allo, 
 
 Hue, 
 An' ask he f7in to talk maskee 6 wat devilo he can do. 
 
 T'hat f7in he tink one piecee tim, t'hen talkee Captin 
 Bfown, 
 
 "Hab-got one spi/it-mejum here he best in allo 
 town; 
 
 Supposey you look-see t'hat man supposey go to 
 night, 
 
 He talkee you how wifey be t'hat pidgin all come 
 Zight." 
 
 1 Golo land, gold land, the land of gold. 
 
 2 Chit, a letter. 3 Mdta, mother (C.V.) 4 Father. 
 5 Bund, embankment, quay. 6 Maskee, right.
 
 CAPTAIN BROWN. 35 
 
 Suppose in t'his worl' man no catch someting he 
 wantchee know, 
 
 He go to spiZit-meejeum and get he savvy l so. 
 
 Wat-tim Chu-mai-chin no hab cash to buy one 
 lamp fo' night, 
 
 He makee hole thZoo wall maskee, an' steal he neigh 
 bour light. 2 
 
 (Now when my talkee mejum an' spiZit-Zappin' hai / 
 My savvy t'at you. tinkee he found out by you fan- 
 
 kwei/ 
 My fZin, you bZutal ignoZance make fall one piecee 
 
 tear, 
 Chinee hab catch t'at pidgin now t'his tenty taushan 
 
 year. 
 
 Supposey one man China-side, he wantchee savvy 
 
 how 
 
 He fZin or chil' or fata 3 be when die-lo long, galow. 
 He makee pen of peach-tZee wood no ot'her sort 
 
 muss get 
 T'hat spirit come an' Zap an' Zap and Zite like one 
 
 planchette.) 
 
 1 He savvy, his information. 
 
 a It is said of Chu-mai-chin, a famous scholar, that when he 
 had no money with which to buy candles, he bored a hole 
 through the wall and read by a ray of light thus obtained. 
 
 3 Friend, child, or father.
 
 36 CAPTAIN BROWN. 
 
 He Captin go to mejum an' mejum go to sleep, 
 An' sleep go into wind-fire land, where allo ting be 
 
 deep. 
 T'hat mejum jist hab catchee light jist go to talkee 
 
 tine, 
 When allo-once he stop an' say, " T'his pidgin no 
 
 can do. 
 
 " My catch one spi/it tell my all but he can no be 
 
 heard ; 
 Some nother spi/it hab got heah' he no can talkee 
 
 word. 
 T'hey rnakee muchee bobbeZy too muchee c/owd 
 
 afoun' 
 T'hey wantchee muchee bad one tim to chiii-chin 
 
 Captin BZown. 
 
 "T'hey talk all-same t'hey savvy 1 you t'hey all 
 
 can do, maskee. 2 
 
 Such facie man 3 in allo-tim my neva hab look-see. 
 My tinkee muchee cu/io he allo be China-man ; 
 But allo hab he head cut off, and holdee in he han'. 
 
 " One piecee man hold up he head to my by he pig 
 tail, 
 
 It talk, ' My blongey prison once my lib in China 
 jail. 
 
 1 Savvy, know. 
 
 2 They are determined to do so, anyhow. 
 
 3 Such looking men.
 
 CAPTAIN BROWN. 37 
 
 We catchee plenty hunga' t'here we scZeamee up 
 
 an' down, 
 But only one man helpee us an' t'hat was Captin 
 
 BZown. 
 
 " ' T'hat Captin he make plenty good fo' allo my 
 galaw, 
 
 Until we catchee head cut off, as belongey China law. 
 
 An' eva' since we spiZits all go walkee uppy down, 
 
 We wantchee to look-see one tim to chin-chin 1 Cap- 
 tin BZown. 
 
 " ' If Chinee no can make chin-chin he catch no good 
 
 inside, 
 
 Supposey he be allo live supposey he hab died. 
 So here we chin-chin plenty nice but fo' we say 
 
 " good-night," 
 My wantchee talkee Captin BZown he family all 
 
 fight.' " 
 
 MORAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 My fZin, supposey you hab Zeed he book of Kung- 
 
 fou-tsze, 
 You larn t'hat allo gZeatest man he most polite man 
 
 be, 
 
 An' on polite-pidgin Chinee beat allo, up or down 
 T'his is he moZal-pidgin of he song of Captin BZown. 
 
 1 Chin-chin. In this relation, to manifest gratitude and 
 politeness, to show good manners.
 
 38 CAPTAIN BROWN. 
 
 NOTE. Dis one of Massa he own stofy. My no savvy 1 
 s'posey belongy pukkha 2 or no s'posey no, my tink he tol-oli 3 
 good look-see-pidgin stoZy. 4 It catchee some piecee muchee 
 good talkee 'bout spiZit-Zappin' China-side ; long-side one \elly 
 good moZal-pidgin. Dis good-party a"llo my talkee. 
 
 AH CHUNQ. 
 
 i Savvy, know. 2 Is true or not. 3 Tol-oli, tolerably (C.V.) 
 
 * Apparently true, will pass for truth.
 
 tije 
 
 OUT he tim when olo debilo 
 
 Spread he claws top-sidee land, 
 All-sam time he fan-kwei Zebel 
 
 Makee bobbeZy allo hand ; 
 When he EmpeZor tellum wailo, 
 
 But he English keepee come, 
 Jist t'at tim in town of Hong-Kong 
 
 Lib one baka'-man, A-him. 
 
 Manda/in make proclamation : 
 
 " S'posey kill one piece fan-kwei, 
 Chinaman catch hantun 1 dolla', 
 
 And he /isee velly high. 
 S'pose he killee sixy-seven, 
 
 T'hen he catchee plenty tin ; 
 Top-side t'at, he Son of Heaven 
 
 Make t'at man a mandarin." 
 
 Olo A-lum tinkee one tim 
 Allo t'his pidgin in he head : 
 
 1 Hantun, one hundred (C.V.)
 
 4O A-LUM THE BAKER. 
 
 " In Hong-Kong two tousand fan-kwei 
 Buy f7om Chinaman he bZead. 
 
 S'pose my pizen only halfee, 
 T'at can makee p/itty sum ; 
 
 An' my catchee co/al button ! " 
 Talkee baka'-man, A-lum. 
 
 So A-lum he catchee pizen, 
 
 Plenty pizen allo town ; 
 Inside bfeakfast-Zolls he make it, 
 
 And t'at lolls he bakum b/own. 
 But as hunter lib by killin' 
 
 He one tim at last get kill, 
 So by'mby t'his Chinee baka' 
 
 He get done more browner still. 
 
 For good pizen man pay dolla', 
 
 An' no tief-man f7in be tue, 
 An' A-lum he catchee scholar 
 
 Who much wantchee dolla' too ; 
 So while all he dough was ftsin, 
 
 T'his come in larn-pidgin's head, 
 He make steal most allo pizen, 
 
 An' put plaster in instead. 
 
 An' he sellee allo pizen, 
 'Fo' he foils make turnee b/own ; 
 
 An' he catchee allo dolla', 
 An' he wailo outee town.
 
 A-L&M THE BAKER. 4! 
 
 Wailo, wailo to t'he fan-kwei, 
 
 An' before t'he /isee sun 
 He hab talkee allo stoly 
 
 What he baka' wantchee done. 
 
 But befo' he makee stop he, 
 
 Muchee man chow-chow t'at Wead, 
 An' too plentee catchee sickee, 
 
 But my tinkee no catch dead. 
 Ai ! it makee muchee bobbery, 
 
 Fo' he talkee evely tongue ; 
 An' larn-pidgin catchee dolla', 
 
 But he baka'-man get hung. 
 
 MOKAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 Man hab talkee, t'his not first tim 
 
 T'at A-liim make bobbe/y so ; 
 An' t'at since he deadee wailo, 
 
 Still he makee kill, galow. 
 It was alway olo custom 
 
 An' to-day my heaZee said 
 VeWy often how he Alum 
 
 Makee pizen baka's bead. 
 
 NOTE. My tinkee inside dis sing-song Massa no hab catchee 
 pfopa bunder. T'at one piecee man A-ltim he no catchee 
 hang he wailo way, my tinkee can be he stop China-side 
 inside, t'his tim, now. 1 My chin-chin Massa too-muchee he 
 please ixcuse t'his talkee. AH CHUNG. 
 
 1 A-lum was really arrested, tried, and acquitted, though his guilt is still 
 generally believed in.
 
 SEang tlje 
 
 HINA-SIDE one tim belongey 
 
 Man name Wang, he too much likee 
 FZin who catchee plenty dolla', 
 
 Kin who catchee first-chop button, 
 
 MandaZin an' all-same people, 
 
 Poor-man f7in t'hat Wang no wantchee. 
 
 One tim Wang he makee tZavel, 
 Makee stop one night in Joss-house. 
 He go sleep, by'mby he wakee 
 Iniside all-samee Joss-house ; 
 Wang he tink he heaZee talkee, 
 Go outside, what for 1 he wantchee 
 To look-see wat makee bobbery. 
 Wat you tink he Wang he findee ? 
 He look-see two piecee coffin, 
 Two piece dead man inside coffin, 
 One to not'ha' makee talkee.
 
 WANG THE SNOB. 43 
 
 Wang look-see at he two coffin ; 
 Makee leed he chop x top-side-um. 
 One chop talkee how he dead man 
 He wat lib insidee coffin, 
 He one mandaZin, he not'ha' 
 Coffin blongy one poor schola', 
 Wat hab nebba catchee dolla', 
 Wat hab nebba catchee button. 
 T'hat sort man he Wang no likee ; 
 Allo t'hat sort he send devilo. 
 
 Wang he go to first-chop coffin, 
 To he mand'Zin an' chin-chin 'um, 
 Burnee joss-stick, talkee pZitty, 
 Knock he head all-same one hamma' ; 
 Make kow-tow in China fashion, 
 T'hen by'mby he chin-chin someting. 
 Chin-chin mandaZin to like he ; 
 Come sometim when he catch sleepee, 
 Come sometim in d/eam look-see 'um. 
 
 Wang look-see he poo' dead student, 
 
 Turnee nose top-side at dead man 
 
 Talkee to 'um too much saucy, 
 
 Talkee t'hat no p/opa pidgin, 
 
 Stop long-side t'hat not'ha' coffin. 
 
 " Wat you wantchee side he mand'Zin 1 " 
 
 1 Inscription.
 
 44 WANG THE SNOB. 
 
 Askee "Wang. " If you look-see 'um 
 Inside hell, you lose you facee, 
 He so big an 5 you so shmallo." 
 T'hen he wipee first-chop coffin, 
 Leavee schola' coffin dusty. 
 
 T7ee day wailo in he nightee, 
 
 Wang look-see one ghost in shleepee ; 
 
 Olo man all dfessee han'some, 
 
 Muchee first-chop olo person 
 
 Wat look-see one pukkha gentium. 
 
 " Hai ! " t'at Massa Wang he tinkee, 
 
 " T'his he mandarin wat I chin-chin 
 
 In he Joss-house, inside coffin ; " 
 
 So he make chin-chin an' kow-tow. 
 
 But he ghost talk, " What for chin-chin ? 
 
 You no savvy you big foolo, 
 
 T'ot'ha' day you talk bad pidgin 
 
 Talkey my, galaw, too sassy, 
 
 Wat-tim you look-see my coffin." 
 
 " Hai yah!" talkee Wang, "my tinkee 
 
 You must blongey t'ot'ha' dead man. 
 
 " My tink you belongy mand'Zin." 
 
 " No," talk ghost, " my blongey schola'. 
 
 You belongey one big foolo. 
 
 My jus' now look-see dat mand'Zin 
 
 Down in hell he one ,poor begga', 
 
 Bottom-side in hell he stop now,
 
 WANG THE SNOB. 45 
 
 No hab got one cash to bless 'um ; 
 But my be, now my hab die-lo, 
 Allo-tim one top-side swell-o 
 Heaven-pidgin-man first-choppee, 
 Tai-pan, tai-pai, numpa one-lo. 
 But no fea/i/ my talk you someting 
 S'posey you chin-chin 1 my han'some ; 
 Burnee my some piece joss-papa', 2 
 My no catch bad-heart to you-lo. 
 No blong Zeason to make bobbeZy, 
 Betta makee allo pfopa. 
 
 " Now my tink you wantchee dolla' 
 Allo man he wantchee someting ; 
 S'pose you wailo to one go-down 3 
 Tu-lip 4 li outside dis city, 
 You look-see one weepee willow. 
 S'posey t'here you diggee hole-o, 
 Ch'hoy / you look-see wat you catchee, 
 Sartin t'here you catchee someting." 
 
 Ghost he wailo, Mr Wang he 
 Too much happy inisidee, 
 Tinkee nighty go too man-man, 5 
 Wantchee b/ight-sun 6 come chop-chop he 
 
 1 Worship me well. 
 
 2 Joss-paper, counterfeit bank-bills, or clothing, &c., burned 
 for the dead. 3 Warehouse, house, &c. 
 
 4 Tu-lip, twelve (C. V.) 5 Man-man, slowly. 
 
 6 Bright-sun, morning to come quickly.
 
 46 WANG THE SNOB. 
 
 Wishee hours all grease wit'h cow-oil, 
 So to makee slip more easy. 
 
 Mornin' come an' Wang he wailo 1 
 To t'hat go-down look-see willow ; 
 Mr Wang he makee diggee, 
 Too much diggee, he no likee 
 Diggee-pidgin, then he heaZee 
 How one man make noise in go-down. 
 Coolie man come out an' talkee 
 Mr Wang one tim, an' askee 
 Wat he devilo ting he wantchee ? 
 What fo' he come t'here an' diggee ? 
 Coolie makee too much bobbeZy, 
 Catch one piecee stick an' floggee 
 Mr Wang, till Wang half die-lo ; 
 Nebba catchee one such floggum 
 Allo he life he nebba tinkee 
 Any man hab catch such floggum. 
 Wang go homee, Wang go beddy, 
 An' in beddy too much weepee, 
 'Cos he be such too-much foolo. 
 By'mby-lo when he get betta, 
 Wang he catch more sense inside he, 
 More-by'mby he often tinkee 
 Wat he schola' ghost make teach-um. 
 Allo-time he lib more pZopa, 
 Nebba more kow-tow big people. 
 
 1 Wailo, hastened.
 
 WANG THE SNOB. 
 
 MORAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 S'posey you go make all-samee, 
 Den you blong five dolla' betta. 
 Sing-song finish. How you likee 1 l 
 
 NOTE. My catchee muchee solly inside to talkee 2 hab got 
 snob-man China-side, dllo-same Englishee-side, or Mexican. 
 It a"llo pukkha. But my no belongey hearee dat inside England 
 one piecee ghost-man come f/om he deadee to makee he snob 
 Repent. Man makee allo-same ting too-muchee betta China- 
 side. My tinkee dat be muchee pZopa pidgin fo' ghost to 
 makee. Can-be, Englishee ghosto tinkee he catchee he hand 
 too-muchee fullo, belongey too-much to do, supposey he tly to 
 make dllo snobs inside England an' Me/ica Zepent. Hai, wat 
 you tinkee? AH CHUNG. 
 
 1 From a story given in the "Celestial Empire." October 23, 
 1875. 
 J I regret to admit.
 
 anfc tfje jEusqutto. 
 
 UPPOSEY you make listen, my sing one 
 
 piecee song, 
 My make he first-chop fashion about 
 
 t'he gZate l Ahong ; 
 He b/avest man in China-side, or any side 
 
 about ; 
 
 My bettee you five dolla', hai / he bravest 
 party out. 
 
 He only fightee 'skeeta', you tinkee t'hat not much. 
 No hab one Manchu Tartar t'hat kali 2 fightee such. 
 My father fightee d/agon t'hat killee allo 3 dead ; 
 T'hat 'skeeta' Ahong killee top-side he Empe/or's 
 head. 
 
 Ahong he pukkha 4 baba 5 no betta can look-see, 
 Ahong he first-chop swordman no swordman hood 6 
 like he ; 
 
 1 Glate, great. The italic I throughout indicates r. 
 
 2 Kdli, want, dare, care (C.V.) 3 Allo, all 
 
 4 Pukkha, real or genuine. 
 
 5 Baba (papa, C.V.), barber. 6 Hood, good (C.V.)
 
 AHONG AND THE MUSQUITO. 49 
 
 He cuttee men like hair down ; he tinkee allo fun : 
 Hab sword or hab got Zazor Ahong he Numpa 
 One. 
 
 Man-man 1 one peach- tlee floweree become one piecee 
 
 peach, 
 
 Man-man one littee chilo 2 get wisa' allo men teach ; 
 You catch one piecee can do ; some day it make you 
 
 gZate ; 
 Ahong hab larn t'his lesson to fightee, shave and 
 
 wait. 
 
 My s'pose you tinkee tim much long to stop till bad 
 
 luck past, 
 But one big piecee mountain he wind blow down at 
 
 last; 
 " An' when b/mby you luck "come," I Zeed in olo 
 
 song, 
 "You catch fitee 3 as 'skeeta'" for luck not waitee 
 
 long. 
 
 Ahong he EmpeZo's baba' ; one day t'hat come about 
 To shave he Chilo Heaven he takee Zazor out, 
 But jist as he come pidgin top-side he holy head, 
 He make look-see one piecee ting t'hat allornost make 
 he dead. 
 
 There come one kwei, one devil no worsee devil be; 
 All-same one piecee 'skeeta' t'his devil he look-see. 
 
 1 Man-man, slowly. 2 Chilo, child. : 3 Fitee I quick ! 
 
 D
 
 5O A HONG AND THE MUSQUITO. 
 
 Ahong no see before-tim one pidgin bad like it, 
 Zight on he Empefo's head-side he 'skeeta' makee 
 sit. 
 
 Jist t'hen Ahong he catch he chance one tim of dllo 
 
 tim 
 One big Joss-pidgin-pidgin 1 chance for allo likee 
 
 him. 
 What ting you tink he makee what ting you tinkee 
 
 do? 
 He go for t'hat muskito and cuttee Zight in two ! 
 
 Can-be you s'pose he cham-tow 2 cut off he 'skeeta' s 
 
 head; 
 
 Ahong he savvy 3 better t'han makee clwp-chop 4 dead, 
 He Zazor flash like d/agon-nre ftght t'hZoo t'hat 
 
 'skeeta' gay, 
 
 An' leave he legees standin' up while body fly away. 
 
 i 
 
 An' t'hen t'hat Chilo Heaven who savvy all t'hat 
 
 pass 
 Top-sidee eart'h, hab look-see t'his (in one big lookee- 
 
 glass) ; 
 He talk t'hat pidgin how-tak-tsei (t'hat meanee "velly 
 
 hood"), 5 
 An' make Ahong a nianda/in which noble all he 
 
 blood. 
 
 1 Divine. z Cut off head. 3 Savvy, know. 
 
 4 Quickly. f Hood, good.
 
 AHONG AND THE MUSQUITO. 51 
 
 T'hat meaney blood before-tim as well as blood to 
 
 come. 
 Man make t'his pidgin so-fashion in China land at 
 
 home, 
 
 Suppose you catchee title it no be p/opa (flow, 1 
 To be greater t'han you fata or gfoufata and so 
 
 They makee allo noble, so-fashion t'hey make do; 
 
 T'hey pay 2 you one hood pedigree long-side a title 
 too, 
 
 You tink you catchee Reason my tinkee you look- 
 see 
 
 All-same one piecee foolo-man, long-sidey one Chinee. 
 
 An' as he EmpeZo' tinkee Ahong be such a bftck, 
 He makee pay t'hat barber his own fine walkee- 
 
 stick ; 
 
 So it blongey olo cutsom 3 which neva wailo* way 
 Allo baba' hab got stickee in China-side to-day. 
 
 Suppose you makee walkee in Canton or Whampo', 
 You allo-tim see baba'-man who catchee cane, galow, 
 My f/in, 5 when good tim come to do, don't makee 
 
 stoppee long : 
 T'his my g/ate moral-pidgin of t'he sto/y of Ahong. 
 
 1 Galow or galaw, a meaningless word, but much used. 
 
 2 Pay, give. 3 Cutsom, custom. 
 4 Wailo, go. * Flin, friend.
 
 Confucius aitfc 
 
 NE tim he Mr Kung-fou-tsze 1 
 Go talkee olo La-ou-tsze, 2 
 An' all too-muchee chin-chin 3 him 
 To tell someting 'bout olo tim. 
 Till, velly ang/y, La-ou-tsze 
 Kick up one piecee bobbe/y, 
 An' scoldee bad, he Kung-fou-tsze, 
 An' talk t'his pidgin, in Chinee. 
 
 " He wise man t'at you talkee so, 
 He deadee wailo 4 longo go. 
 He bone all fatten in he gZave, 
 Only some piecee word you have, 
 One piecee word in ole Chinee 
 You talkee-talkee 'um to me. 
 He wise man talk to devilo flew, 
 My wish he talk go dev'lo too. 
 
 1 Confucius. 
 
 2 La-ou-tsze, a sage founder of the Taou sect. 
 
 3 Implored. 4 Gone.
 
 CONFUCIUS AND LA-OU-TSZE. 53 
 
 "My s'pose you saw' 1 how ma-chin 2 man 
 
 Hide up he dolla' allo can, 
 
 Make hidee or he manda/in 
 
 Come squeezee 'way wat ma-chin win. 
 
 You all-same manda/in, I say, 
 
 You wantchee 3 squeeze my wisdom 'way. 
 
 My savvy someting dat be tine, 
 
 But make no pidgin long-side you. 
 
 " My lookee you, my solly see 
 Wat-piece one foolo-man you be, 
 You wantchee Use all-same he smoke 
 Top-sidee headee 4 allo folk. 
 S'posey you Use one tim my say, 
 All-same he smoke you blow away." 
 
 When La-ou-tsze have talkee so, 
 
 He get top-side one buffalo, 
 
 An' /idee 'way across he plain, 
 
 An' homo 5 nevva com again. 
 
 While Kung-fou-tsze, who standee t'here, 
 
 All-same one piecee foolo stare, 
 
 An' talk, " He wise man La-ou-tsze, 
 
 He muchee-much too much for me. 
 
 1 Savvy, know. 
 
 2 Ma-chin, merchant (native vocabulary). 
 
 3 Wantchee, want. 
 
 4 Alcove the heads of all. 
 
 5 Home. This retort of La-ou-tsze is historical, nor is it denied 
 by the disciples of Confucius.
 
 54 CONFUCIUS AND LA-OU-TS7.E. 
 
 11 My savvy l how he fishee swim, 
 My savvy bird, top-sidee lim', 
 My savvy how one deer lun by, 
 My savvy how he dragon fly. 
 Man catchee fish wit' linee-hook, 
 T'at bird insidee net get took, 
 Wit' allow deer get shootee so, 
 But how catch dZagon no man know. 
 
 <{ He olo sage, he La-ou-tsze 
 All-same one d/agon look to me ; 
 He talkee allo my facie 'way, 2 
 My catchee no one word to say ; 
 He shuttee-up poo' Kung-fou-tsze, 
 An' makee my all f7aid of he." 
 
 MORAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 Dis pukkha 3 sing-song makee show 
 How smart man make mistake, galow. 
 Dere's wisee men no hab pZetence, 
 Who long-side wisdom catchee sense. 
 Oh ! tink, my f/in ! 4 oh ! tink, ye yout'h, 
 You wantchee d/ain t'hat well 
 
 1 Savvy, know. 
 
 3 To take one's face away, the common Chinese 'expression 
 for causing shame or defeat. 
 3 Pukkha, true. * Flin, friend.
 
 CONFUCIUS AND LA-OU-TSZE. 55 
 
 Look-see you bucket, 'fore you ily, 
 Got Zopee 'nuf to pump 'um dly. 
 One piecee mouse can dZink at liver, 
 But let he mousey tly for ever, 
 All he can do top-sidee shore 
 Is squinch * he t'hirst an' nuffin more. 
 
 1 Quench.
 
 Cat. 
 
 UPPOSEY moon make shine t'hZoo peach- 
 
 blossom. 
 
 T'at light long- side he blossom, allo two 
 Look-see more nicey one for not' her hai ? 
 Suppose my catch one stofy wat belong 
 He olo tim and make one piecee sing ; 
 You look-see sing-song an' he sto/y make 
 One-not'her muchee betta, nevva fear ! 
 One tim lib China-side one piecee cat, 
 One day he massa take Joss-pidgin beads 
 He put bead found cat neck. He cat look-see 
 All-same one patele, 1 one Joss-pidgin-man. 
 Wat-tim he mousey walk outside he hole, 
 Look-see dat pidgin see dat cat hab catch 
 One piecee bead, he mousey too much glad. 
 An' allo mouse catch too much hood 2 inside, 
 An' talkee not'her allo so-fashion : 
 "T'hat piecee cat he blongey velly hood, 
 He make Josh- pidgin allo pfopa now. 
 
 1 Padre, priest. 2 Hood, good (C.V.)
 
 THE CAT. 57 
 
 One tim he ve^y bad but now he 'pent l 
 
 An' nevva chow-chow 2 mousey any more, 
 
 An' allo mousey lib all pZopa now ; 
 
 He go outside what-tim he wantchee go, 
 
 An' nevva blongey ftaid he cat no fear. 
 
 An' mousey go to sing-song 3 allo tim, 
 
 An' takee waifo, chilos walk outside, 
 
 An' allo day for allo mousey now, 
 
 He be one Feast ob Lantern, hai ! ch'hoy /" 
 
 T'at mousey tink t'at pidgin velly nice, 
 
 He catchee too much happy iniside, 
 
 He makee dancee, galantee, maskee. 4 
 
 He cat look-see t'at dance, he walk man-man, 
 
 No makee bobbe/y till wat-tim he come 
 
 Long-side he dancee t'en he Zun chop-chop 5 
 
 Insidee dance and catch one piecee mouse, 
 
 An' makee chow-chow all same olo tim. 
 
 He mousey f7in all wailo in he hole, 
 
 An' allo cly cly some for he dead f/in, 
 
 An' some what-fo' 6 he ftaid cat catchee he ; 
 
 An' allo-tim t'ey make one sing-song, 
 
 Sing-song how mousey solly iniside. 
 
 T'at sound all-same he wind top-side t'at pines ; 
 
 T'at sound all-same one piecee ocean-shell, 
 
 " How fashion allo happy ting he come ! 
 
 How fashion allo happy wailo 'way ! 
 
 1 Repent. 2 Eat. 3 Theatrical entertainments. 
 
 4 Grand and all right. B Rapidly. . 6 Because.
 
 58 THE CAT. 
 
 All- same he sunshine top-side mountain-hat. 
 My tinkee cat hab got be pfopa cat, 
 My tinkee allo sin belongey dead, 
 My tinkee mousey makee lob and steal 
 Allo he wantchee, dat one tim hab got 
 What-tim he saint catch all ting ebbermore. 
 My tink he cat he makee chin-chin Fo, 
 My tinkee Puss-cat be Joss-pidgin-man 
 Who no can chow-chow meat hai yah / ptihoy > 
 Dat cat hab cheatee, cheatee, cheatee my ; 
 My tink he hood he be too bad, maskee. 
 He Joss-pidgin be all look-see pidgin. 1 
 My wish t'at cat be dam wit' eve/yting, 
 For allo world be bad, an' all be bad, 
 An' evely side hab pizen, cats and t/aps : 
 My no can do make tZust one man no more." 
 
 1 Look-see pidgin, hypocrisy (Anglo-Chinese newspaper).
 
 Efje Eefrel 
 
 |LLO-SAME one typhoon 
 
 Cut littee flower down, 
 
 Tai-ping 'bellion 
 Bot'her allo land ; 
 All-same lightning 
 Knock olo tower down, 
 Empe/o' he so-je-man 1 makee lebel stand. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Hang-cheong-low 2 send 'um allo travellin', 
 Hi yah ! 3 Littee man can do ! 
 
 Dis Tai-ping 
 
 He makee too much bobbery, 
 Catchee man an' girley 
 Makee kill-pidgin ; 
 Makee all he savvy* 
 Of murder an' ZobbeZy, 5 
 An' cuttee off he pigtail to show he 'ligion. 
 
 1 So-je-man, soldier or officer (C.V.) 
 
 2 Hang-cheong-low (Cantonese), to take the long journey, i.e., 
 to be transported to the frontier. 
 
 3 Hi or ai yah I an interjection, look ! 
 
 4 Savvy, knew. 5 Robbery.
 
 60 THE REBEL PIG. 
 
 Jus' 'bout tim 
 Of allo dis 'citeyment, 
 Inside olo Joss-house 1 
 'Way in Honan, 
 Burnin' plenty Joss-stick, 2 
 To pay 'um 3 enlightyment, 
 Lib one good olo Joss-pidgin-man. 
 
 Dis Joss-man 
 Was a ve//y good clirical, 
 Largee-facey man, 
 Belly velly big, 
 By'mby he p/ay 
 Makee first-chop mi/acle, 
 For he makee fat, jis' like he a ve% p/itty pig. 
 
 Pig keepee g/owin' 
 FatteZer an''fatteZer, 4 
 Nevva such a piggy 
 Since pigs began. 
 Joss-man he smilee, 
 An' talk, " You be flatte/er," 
 When t'hey talkee pig look-see all-samee Joss- 
 pidgin-man. 6 
 
 1 Joss-house, temple. 
 
 2 Joss-stick, a kind of consecrated tapers made of sandal-wood. 
 
 3 Pay 'urn, to give them. 
 
 4 Fatter and fatter. 
 
 6 When they said the pig exactly resembled the priest.
 
 THE REBEL PIG. 6 1 
 
 Long-side he Joss-house 
 Stop one olo mandaZin, 
 He wantchee t'at pig, 
 He look-see 'urn nightey day, 
 He talkee big lie 
 
 'Bout he Urn 1 but allo slanderin', 
 Nevva can makee to catchee piggy 'way. 
 
 But one dark nightey 
 He sha-man 2 he got away 
 Wit' big sharp knifey 
 To c&lly out he plan, 
 He crawley in he hog-pen, 
 An' t'here he cut away 
 He tailey of he piggy of he Joss -pidgin-man. 
 
 Nex' day Joss-man 
 Wailo talkee 3 mandarin 
 How la-li-loong 4 
 Steal he piggy-tail. 
 "Wantchee to catch 'urn 
 One tim' a wandeftn' 5 
 Pay 'urn a floggin' an' sendee off to jail. 
 
 1 Flin, friend. 
 
 2 Sha-man, servant (unusual, but from a Chinese-English 
 vocabulary). 
 
 3 Wailo talkee, went and told. * La-li-loong, a thief. 
 5 Wandering.
 
 62 THE REBEL PIG. 
 
 11 Hai yah ! " say manda/in, 
 "Wat dis pidgin 1 now? 
 My muss do my duty 
 Juss as my can ; 
 If piggy no hab pigtail 
 He catchee no 'ligion now, 
 An' my take 'um fo' one Zebel an' a Tai-ping 
 man. 
 
 " T'at law talkee so-fashion : 
 Who catchee no piggy-tail 
 He makee 'bellion, 
 Muss die in de Ian'." 
 My sing-song be finishee, 
 My hope you like my biggee tale 
 Of mandarin who cheatee he Joss-pidgin-man. 
 
 Tsow une - shaw - wei. 
 (Hab finishee head and tail.) 
 
 NOTE. The Tai-ping rebels cut off the pigtail, but suffered 
 the hair to grow all over the head. 
 
 1 Pidgin, affair.
 
 ONE PIECES SING-SONG CALIFORNEE-SIDE. 
 
 HAT-TIM he almon' flower hab white, 
 
 when peach-tee blongey pink, 
 My smokee opium-pipe, galaw, an' muchee 
 
 tim my tink 
 'Bout allo pidgin China-side no fan-kwei 
 
 understand, 
 In olo Fei-Chaw-Shang inside my nicee 
 
 G/een-Tea Land. 
 
 Some tim my makee d/eam-pidgin an' Zidee on he 
 wind 
 
 Across he yaong (he ocean) to allo my leavee 'hind, 
 
 Where willow-t/ee all-same golo 1 in sun-go-down- 
 shine stand, 
 
 In olo Fei-Chaw-Shang inside my nicey Gfeen-Tea 
 Land. 
 
 1 Golo, gold.
 
 64 THE GREEN-TEA LAND. 
 
 My hearee one tim China-side ftom velly olo witch, 
 Supposey my go fan-kwei * land, my gettee plenty 
 
 Zich. 
 What-tim my catchee pay dirt now, an' cash come 
 
 plenty hand, 
 My wailo horn to Fei-Chaw-Shang my olo Gleen- 
 
 Tea Land. 
 
 There bottom-side he shiney moon at housee I 
 
 look-see, 
 An' fishee 'mong he 16 flower long-side he lunyan- 
 
 t/ee ; 
 Supposey die, my catchee gZave where wisee man 
 
 command, 
 All pZopa China-fashion in he nicey GZeen-Tea 
 
 Land. 
 
 1 Foreign devil.
 
 P?eart anfc 
 
 Y paylo 1 all, my catch no more 
 S'pose cumshaw p/opa be 
 Inside 2 an' ghunga allo store 
 
 My blong to paylo thee. 
 
 He ghunga s'pose you nik-ki, 3 peal 
 
 More largee any bell, 
 
 Long-side one piece inside t'hat feel 
 
 Two-tim he ghunga tell. 
 
 Suppose one-tim inside no good, 
 Or no can do, maskee, 4 
 T'hat ting he betta undastood 
 What-tim you ho-hop-ki. 5 
 Supposee ghunga fally down 
 An' makee catch a st/ain, 
 Oh, takee to one China-man, 
 He makee p/opa 'gain. 
 
 The first eight lines of this rhyme are from an anonymous 
 parody, which was written in ordinary English. 
 
 1 Paylo, give. 2 Inside, heart. 
 
 3 Nlk-ki, to hit or strike (unusual, C.V.) 
 
 4 Anyhow. 8 Drink tea (unusual, C.V.) 
 
 E
 
 W-lHO man swim best, t'hat man most gettee 
 
 dfown ; 
 
 Who lid.ee best, he most catch tumble 
 down. 
 
 ^ One piecee blind man heaZee best, maskee ; 
 One piecee deaf man makee best look-see. 
 
 One-tim in taushan wise man no talk fight, 
 One-tim in taushan foolo shinee Wight. 
 
 Supposey you no make look-see for moZ/ow, 
 You veWy soon to-day make catchee soWow. 
 
 One piecee farmer for t'hat /ain make p/ay, 
 Traveller chin-chin for sunshine allo day. 
 
 You catch no needle sharp at both he ins, 
 You blongey no all-good man 'mong you f/ins. 
 
 Suppose you savvy wat tZee day come by, 
 You catchee plenty dollar, fl'mfa ts'ai !
 
 PROVERBS. 67 
 
 One man who never Zeedee, 
 Like one d/y inkstan' be ; 
 
 You turn he top- side downy, 
 No ink Zun outside he. 
 
 You tongue he soft you tongue he long tim last. 
 You teet'h he hard but teet'h he wailo fast. 
 
 Supposey you one top-side man, 
 
 No squeezee man below ; 
 Suppose you blongey bottom-side, 
 
 Let top-side be, galow. 
 
 You no hab pidgin, you no lite or Zeed ; 
 One foad no tZavel catchee plenty weed. 
 
 Suppose one man much bad how bad he be, 
 One not'her bad man may be ftaid of he.
 
 NE-TIM two piecee Flunsee 1 walkee in 
 
 Canton, 
 
 Look-see one piecee cuZio-shop first- 
 chop numpa one. 
 
 Chinaman he show 'urn allo pukkha ting, 
 Birdee paint top-sidee plate makee fly wit'h 
 wing. 
 
 Flunsee look-see birdee Flunsee talk ". Oiseau;" 
 Chinaman he tinkee Flunsee ask " Why so ? " 
 
 He no savvy Flunsee talk, so he makee tell 
 To 'um in he English " Why so? makee sell." 
 
 By'mby on lacker-box all-same birdee playin', 
 Flunsee-man look-see it, talk " Oiseau " again. 
 
 Chinaman he hear-lo tink he savvy well, 
 
 So talkee all-same pidgin, " Why so ? makee sell." 
 
 Flunsee tinkee sartin he hab larnee word, 
 Talk he f/in t'hat makise'l be China for a bird. 
 
 1 Flunsee or Flansy, i.e., FZangais, a Frenchman. Also Fa- 
 lan-sai and Fat-lan-se.
 
 Princess in 
 
 ELONGEY China EmpeZor, 
 
 My make one piecee sing : 
 He catchee one cow-chilo, 1 
 
 She waifo Tartar king, 
 Hab lib in colo Ian', 2 
 
 Hab stop where ice belong, 
 What-tim much solly 3 in-i-sy 4 
 She makee t'his sing-song : 
 " He wind he wailo 5 'way, 
 He wind he wailo 'long, 
 An' bleeze blow ovefy almon'-Uee, 
 An' cully a birdo song. 
 
 " Too muchee li 7 to China-side 
 T'hat-place he t/ee glow high, 
 
 My fata 8 blongey palacee, 
 All golo 9 in-i-sy, 
 
 1 Daughter (unusual). 2 Cold country, i.e., Tartary. 
 
 3 In grief. 
 
 4 In-i-sy, inside ; not in common use, but given in this form 
 in Chinese vocabulary. In-sy is, however, sometimes heard. 
 
 6 Goes. 6 Carry. 7 Li, a Chinese mile. 
 
 8 Father. 8 Gold inside.
 
 7O THE PRINCESS JN TARTARY. 
 
 My wantchee look-see mata, 1 
 
 He mata wantchee kai, 2 
 My tinkey Mongol fashiono 
 No pZopa 3 fashion my. 
 Ai ! wind he wailo 'way, 
 Ai ! wind he wailo long, 
 An' bleeze blow ove/y almon'-tZee, 
 An' ca/fy a birdo song ! 
 
 " He birdo wailo Pay-chin, 4 
 
 Chop-chop 5 he makee fly ; 
 T'hat mata hear he sing-song, 
 
 How muchee data dy, 
 ' How Tartar-side he colo/ 
 
 How muchee nicee warm, 
 One data-chilo catchee 
 In-i-sy 6 he mata arm. 
 Ai ! wind he wailo 'way, 
 Ai ! wind he wailo long, 
 An' bleeze blow ove/y almon'-tZee, 
 An' ca//y a birdo song. 
 
 " He go top-sidee cow, 
 T'hat fashion Tartar-side, 
 
 T'hat no be p/opa fashion 
 ForPili-kaiUoZide. 
 
 1 Mdta, mother. 2 Kai, daughter (unusual, C.V.) 
 
 3 Plopa, proper. 4 Pay-chin, Pekin. 6 Quickly. 
 
 6 Inside, within, in. 7 Emperor's daughter.
 
 THE PRINCESS IN TARTARY. 
 
 Supposee he lib homo, 1 
 
 So-fashion he look-see, 2 
 He Zide fo' 3 piecee horsey 
 In coachey galantee. 4 
 Ai ! wind he wailo 'way, 
 Ai ! wind he wailo long, 
 An' bleeze blow oveZy almon'-tZee, 
 An' catty he birdo song." 
 
 He mata talkee Pili : 5 
 
 He Pili open han', 
 He talkee, " No good fashion 
 
 Hab got in Tartar Ian'. 
 Must make one China town, 
 Must makee for he kai ; 6 
 Must makee Tartar-sidee, 7 
 An' he no makee c/y." 
 Ai ! wind he wailo 'way, 
 Ai ! wind he wailo long, 
 An' bleeze blow oveZy almon'-tZee, 
 An' caZ/y he birdo song. 
 
 He sendee muchee coolie, 
 He sendee smartee man, 
 
 He makee China city 
 In-i-sy t'hat Tartar Ian'. 
 
 1 Home 2 She would appear thus. 3 Four. 
 
 4 Grand. 5 The mother addressed the Emperor. 
 
 6 Daughter. r In Tartary.
 
 72 THE PRINCESS IN TARTARY. 
 
 He kai catch pZopa palace 
 
 An' coachey galantee, 1 
 No more hab makee cly dy. 
 My sing-song finishee. 
 Ai ! wind lie wailo 'way, 
 Ai ! wind he wailo long, 
 An' Weeze blow ove/y almon'-tZee, 
 An' cally he birdo song. 
 
 1 And a fine coach.
 
 Cfje Eat* 
 
 Lou-shu-lai-kek-teng, " A rat pulling out a nail." 
 
 Chinese Proverb. 
 
 NE-TIM one piecee hi, 
 Pull hard to catchee nail, 
 And talkee when he come : 
 " Look-see what largey tail ! 
 
 " But now my gettee out 
 T'his ting no good no how l 
 One piecee olo iron 
 No blongey good chow-chow." 
 
 Supposey man lose tim 
 'Bout one long foolo tale, 
 He take you in P'ho / 
 It all-same l&i an' nail. 
 
 1 How, good (M.)
 
 " Pigeon-eyed man nestles in high places." 
 
 Chinese Proverb. 
 
 NE piecee pidgin makee nest 
 
 Top-side one Joss-house up to sky, 
 One olo hen he wantchee know 
 What for he pidgin lib so high ? 
 
 He pidgin talk, " You savvy, fZin, 
 My eye make veWy good look-see 
 Sometim to catchee chow-chow, or 
 When hawk come t'his side catchee me." 
 
 Suppose one man belongey smart, 
 He all o- way catchee pidgin-eye ; 
 Who-man he makee good look-see, 
 That man he allo-way Zisee high.
 
 Utttle 3facft Corner, 
 
 ITTEE Jack Homer 
 Makee sit inside corner, 
 
 Chow-chow he C/ismas pie ; 
 He put inside t'um, 
 Hab catchee one plum, 
 
 " Hai yah ! what one good chilo 
 my!"
 
 'is -Song. 
 
 MILEY girley, losy boy, 
 S'posey makee buy my toy ; 
 Littee devilos make of clay, 
 Awful snakey c/awley 'way, 
 G/ate black spider, eyes all fed, 
 D/agons fit to scarce dead. 
 Dis de sortey p/itty toy 
 Sell to littee China-boy. 
 
 NOTE. My no can tinkee wat devilo Massa tinkee wat-tim he 
 makee dis sing-song. It look-see my allo one piecee foolo-pidgin. 
 Wat-for Chinaman makee littee devilos, snakey spiderlo an' 
 dragon, if no makee fo' chilos to scare 'um an' makee good? 
 My tinkee can do good pidgin, supposey Englishee-man, in- 
 steadee pay he chilos one piecee pZitty dolly, all-same one littee 
 wifey, pay 'um littee devilos an' snakeys an' talkey, " S'posey 
 you no belongey good, t'hat ting he catchee you all over, an' 
 bitee you, galaw." 
 
 Supposey one piecee gentleum who Zeed dis, wantchee come 
 dis pidgin in he family my catchee one Chinee fl'm in London 
 he catch fai-dozen box first-chop China toy makee sell too- 
 muchee cheap, galaw. My too-much likee do littee pidgin 
 long-he. 
 
 AH CHUNG.
 
 Captain Sfottes. 
 
 XE-TIM one piecee Englishman, he Jones 
 He lowdah, 1 gunboat captin blong he 
 
 pidgin 
 
 Makee big bobbe/y an' fight Chinee ; 
 Maskee 2 t'hat China-junk he floggum much, 
 Pay 'umfo-yok 3 t'hat talkee "gunpowda" 
 An' makee English gunboat ossoty* 
 Go bottom-sidee wata, allo fire. 
 What-tim he Captin Jones look-see he boat 
 Go walkee bottom-sidee so-fashion, 
 He talkee so one boy one China-boy 
 " Supposey lun in cabin, gettee my 
 T'hat piecee desk -fitee ! 5 or no can do ! " 
 T'hat desk belongey inside muchee golo, 6 
 Plenty chop-dolla', plenty piecee watch, 
 Plenty bank-note, galaw. He China-boy 
 Wailo 7 chop-chop in cabin; by'mby-lo 
 
 1 Lowdah, boat captain. 2 Maskee, however. 
 
 3 Fo-yok (Cantonese), fire-physic, i.e., gunpowder. 
 
 4 Ossoty, quick, make haste. 5 Fitee ! quickly. 
 6 That desk had much gold in it. 7 Went away.
 
 78 CAPTAIN JONES. 
 
 He walkee back allo top-side he clothes 
 He catchee plenty wata he look-see 
 Too-muchee ffiten talkee, " No can do, 
 Hab go't too-plenty wata all-inside 
 Top-side he cabin. No can catchee desk." 
 Wat-tim he China-boy he talkee t'hat, 
 One piecee largee cannon-ball ch'hoy ! 
 Come an' cham-taw t'hat talkee Englishee, 
 " Cut off he head " he blongey dead, galaw. 
 
 One piecee seli-man 1 he walk t'hat side, 
 He catchee all-same China-boy all-dead. 
 It blongey he pidgin 2 to takee boy 
 An' t'Wow 'um in he wata. Captin Jones 
 Talkee chop-chop to he, " You no can do, 
 You no ought makee so-fashion. You stop ! 
 My wantchee look-see someting my hab catch 
 Tinkee inside." 3 T'hat Captin Jones look-see 
 T'hat China-boy he pocket Ai ! ph'ho /* 
 He catchee inside allo dolla' t'here, 
 An' allo watch an' allo bankey-note 
 T'hat blongey desk all p/opa pidgin he ! 
 
 MORAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 T'hat China-boy he plenty smart inside, 
 He plenty savvy. No piece English boy 
 
 1 Sdi-man, sailor (C.V. ) a It was his business. 
 
 3 I have got an idea. 4 Chinese interjections.
 
 CAPTAIN JONES. 79 
 
 Can makee do all-same fashion, galaw, 
 Chop-chop like China-boy he no can catch 
 T'hat dolla' all-same tim ; he Captin Jones 
 He catchee smart inside he tink chop-chop 
 T'hat boy hab catch he dolla' that-fo' 1 he 
 Hab stop too muchee long tim China-side, 
 Suppose he no hab stop in China-side 
 He no t'hat much can savvy. China-boy 
 He catch t'hat dolla', an' t'hat Captin Jones 
 He catch 'um 'nother tim, an' allo two 
 Hab makee China-fashion. Sing-song done. 
 
 NOTE. Dis velly good sing-song, but my no tinkee Massa 
 catchee pZopa fashion to talkee so wat t'hat China-boy wantchee 
 do. My tinkee t'hat China-boy he savvy Captin Jones hab too 
 much pidgin, 2 an' got too-muchee fightee to makee to take good 
 Mli 3 allo t'hat dolla'. So he take ca^um 4 to give 'um to Captin 
 Jones chilos o' fZins, s'posey he get killee. S'posey you tinkey one 
 piecee man stealee, you not ought talkee t'hat, an' takee way he 
 facey. T'hat no pZopa China-fashion, t'hat no be p'lite. 
 
 AH CHUNG. 
 
 1 That-for, because. 2 Was too busy. 
 
 3 Kali, care (C.V.) * Take cal'urn, take care of them.
 
 Ballafc of 
 
 LL-SAME one peachee flowero top-side he 
 
 g/een leaves walk, 
 Jist so one piecee sing-song go top-side 
 
 common talk. 
 An' man who makee sing-song top-side all 
 
 men, galow ! 
 
 My sing you p/opa stoZy 'bout man name 
 Wing-King- Wo. 
 
 One Ing-he-lis Joss-pidgin-man stop China-side one- 
 
 tim, 
 He catch dis piecee China-boy an' take fo' wait on 
 
 him. 
 Hab catch 'um in he Wong-hau-kai t'hat talk 
 
 Queen's ioad, Hong-Kong 
 He no can tink t'hat ting he make get p/intee in a 
 
 song. 
 
 T'his China-boy he too-much wise, he numpa onelo 
 
 smart, 
 He hear-lo allo, look-see all, an' keep insidee heart.
 
 WING-KING- WO. 8 1 
 
 S'pose Massa talkee Reason he /oil * he eyes, 
 
 galow, 
 An' make kow-tow an' tankee t'his g/ateful Wing- 
 
 King-Wo. 
 
 T'his Joss-man name he io-pin-son, he wailo flora. 
 
 Hong-Kong, 
 Hab walkee horn to Ink-i-lan take China-boy 
 
 along, 
 'Cause China-boy he talk he die s'pose Massa leave 
 
 'um so, 
 He wantchee die by Massa's side t'his lovin' Wing- 
 
 King-Wo. 
 
 He Massa' give 'um p/opa clo'se 2 an' muchee good 
 
 advice, 
 He /oil he eyes an' hear-lo, an' say, "You talk so 
 
 nice, 
 It makee my more good t'han clo'se an' clo'se be 
 
 nice, galow." 
 He makee numpa one chin-chin t'his p/itee Wing- 
 
 King-Wo. 
 
 He look all-same one gentleum asho' in Ink-i-lan ; 
 He talk so nice, you nebba say he piecee sa'van 3 man. 
 
 Moll, i.e., rolled up his eyes as if astonished. 
 Clothes. 3 Servant. 
 
 F
 
 8 2 WING- KING- WO. 
 
 Wat-tim he walkee out to walk, he takee book, 
 
 galow, 
 An' alloway hab spectacle t'his lamed Wing-King- 
 
 Wo. 
 
 By'mby-lo people talkee he one poo' Manda/in 
 That wantchee catchee savvy, 1 but no catch cash or 
 
 flin. 
 
 An' so all-same one sa'van come to Ink-i-lan, galow. 
 He velly intefesturi man dis touchin' Wing-King- 
 
 Wo. 
 
 T'hey talkee him 'bout 'ligion he muchee like to 
 
 hear. 
 
 T'hey askee if he likeum, he talkee, " Nevva fear ! " 
 T'hey tellum Chinee-fashion all came Horn debilo, 
 He loll he eyes an' nod he head t'his tender Wing- 
 King- Wo. 
 
 By'mby-lo he leave Massa, wit' tear inside he eyes, 
 But to he pfopa station he savvy he must Use. 
 Can-be you tiuk he take on airs wit' noblemen, 
 
 oh no ! 
 He walkee 'bout wit' cla'gyman t'his modes' Wing- 
 
 King-Wo. 
 
 1 Savvy, here learning, information.
 
 WING-KING-WO. 83 
 
 They talk, "We hear you MandaZin;" he smiley, 
 
 shake he head, 
 An' say, "My no such g'lanti man my no can buy 
 
 my Wead. 
 My only one poo' schola' an' t'hat not much, you 
 
 know 
 T'hough I be first-chop in China," talk bashful 
 
 Wing-King- Wo. 
 
 An' allo ting go nice fo' he one-tim in Ink-i-lan. 
 Some lady like to talkee t'hat handsome China 
 man, 
 So muchee girl make love-pidgin what-side he makee 
 
 go, 
 
 He be one sassy flowa' -heart 1 t'his pleasant Wing- 
 King-Wo. 
 
 One nightey in a party he be top-side of all. 
 One piecee lady on he arm he p/omenadee hall, 
 When allo once a gentleum dy out, " Hey debilo ! 
 Wat-tim you comee ffom Hong-Kong, my olo Wing- 
 King-Wo 1 " 
 
 T'hat Wing-King-Wo he smiley an' talk, " My flin, 
 
 I see 
 You takee my for not'ha man who face all-same as 
 
 me." 
 
 1 Flower-heart, a fickle lover.
 
 84 WING-KING- WO. 
 
 He gentleum he talkee, " My no mistake, galow. 
 You wait on Massa io-pin-son, you name be Wing- 
 King-Wo." 
 
 He Chinaman he look at 'um in veZ/y g?ate sup/ise, 
 An' puttee han' top-side he ha'at l an' softly loll he 
 
 eyes, 
 An' say, " You catch my name all Zight but t'hen 
 
 you shu'ly know 
 T'hat many taushan Chinaman he name be Wing- 
 
 King-Wo." 
 
 One not'ha gentleum here come up an' say, " Sir, 
 
 t'his Chinee 
 
 Hab pass examination hab catchee big deg/ee." 
 He ot'ha say, " Supposey tAie my likee fo' you go 
 To look-see t'hat diploma of Massa Wing-King- Wo." 
 
 Now Wing-King- Wo hab tinkee t'his fo' many day 
 
 befo' 
 
 It no belongey Reason to catch no chop to show, 
 So he take out he letta-case all-same one cuZio 
 An' open big diploma t'hat belongey Wing-King- Wo. 
 
 He gentleum he take 'um. As soon as he look-see 
 T'hat big ve'milion paper all pZintee in Chinee 
 He tumble in one easy-chair an' laugh like debilo, 
 He scZeam an' kick, he laugh so much an' cly to 
 
 Wing-King- Wo. 
 
 1 Heart.
 
 WING-KING- WO. 85 
 
 He talkee, " You no savvy, boy, how my can Zeed 
 
 Chinee. 
 Dis papa' he one sing-song-chop one playbill, as I 
 
 see; 
 
 It talkee 'bout a t'heata' in Hong-Kong a yeah' ago. 
 T'his be first-chop diploma for one man like Wing- 
 
 King-Wo." 
 
 T'hey finishee to laughee an' look to much su'- 
 
 plise, 
 T'hey no can find t'at Chinaman he vanish f/om he 
 
 eyes. 
 Hab muchee man in Lan-tun town but f7om t'hat 
 
 tim I know 
 Of no man t'hat look-see he face of Massa Wing- 
 
 King-Wo. 
 
 MORAL-PIDGIN. 
 
 Supposey you poo' sa'van man supposey you look- 
 see 
 
 One chance to be one gentle um all-same t'his poo' 
 Chinee, 
 
 Can-be you no would make all-same can-be you no 
 begin, 
 
 But my would no make bet too-much upon it my 
 ffinl
 
 86 WING-KING- WO. 
 
 My tinkee t'hat one Chinaman all-same in heart as 
 
 you, 
 
 But sometim littee smarta' you savvy t'hat is tine. 
 Suppose one man he too-much poo' an' too-much 
 
 smart, you know 
 He often come t'he pidgin on all-same as Wing- 
 
 King-Wo. 
 
 NOTE. Dis allo one too-muchee pukkha stoZy. My savvy t'hat 
 Wing-King- Wo, my tinkee he catchee one littee shop inside 
 Sze-tan-lee-kai (dat talkee Stanley StZeet), inside Hong-Kong 
 to-day. My no can ixcuse dat foolo Chinee all-same Massa do 
 my tinkee he catch one jackass-head, he too-muchee foolo 
 to make 'pology fo'. Wat-fo' he wantchee talkee he all-same 
 gZanti man China-side, when he savvy hab got too-muchee Ink- 
 i-lis gentleum in Lan-tun who savvy him ? Wat-fo' he 
 wantchee make look-see pidgin how he one schola', when eveZy- 
 body in Lan-tun jist as Zeddy to Inn afta' one piecee coolie, 
 s'pose he got good clo'se ? An' wat-fo' s'pose he must makee 
 look-see he schola', wat-fo' he no catchee one look-see-pidgin 
 diploma, all-same as one Ink-i-lis man buy fo' fai dolla' fZom 
 one piecee Zascal who make 'um in AmeZica ? One piecee China 
 man wat no savvy nuf fo' dis must hab got wata top-side. My 
 wishee Massa be mo' stric' wat-tim he Zite dis moZal-pidgin. 
 Hab got some Chinaman da.^ catch bad moZals all-same fan- 
 kwei, an' my no wantchee pZaise one Chinee, suppose he no 
 good. AH CHUNG.
 
 STORIES.
 
 STORIES. 
 
 Captain Jones antr tfje 
 
 APTIN JONES nother-tim make fightee 
 China -side, muchee big piece bobbe/y 
 make he. Chinaman blongey war-junk 
 he shootee too muchee allow, Chinaman he holla', 
 " Ewan-na-Tcon /" (t'hat talkee, " FoZeign dog ! ") Cap- 
 tin Jones talkee, " Dam ! " By'mby one piecee allow 
 come t'his side, he allow stick in one China boy 
 blongey Captin he boat. Captin he wailo chop-chop, 
 he wantchee pullee allow outside t'hat China boy; 
 he pullee, pullee velly muchee; no can do. Captin 
 talkee, " My too muchee solly inside no can niakee 
 so-fashion. He a//ow no come outside. Maskee my 
 talkee you what can do. My can put all-same one 
 piecee Yin-ke-li 1 flag top-side he a//ow supposey you 
 wave 'um. T'hat can do. T'hat nicey pidgin for 
 you ! " 
 
 1 Yin-ke-li, English.
 
 Captain Jones anU ijis 
 
 CAPTIN JONES, what-tim he catchee ping- 
 ch'wahn (t'hat talkee, gunboat), belongey 
 too plenty man catch sick. Captin hab 
 one box allo full plenty yow (t'hat talkee, medcin) ; 
 maskee he Captin no savvy what-for to payum. He 
 makee come allo he man, he talkum, " Look-see. 
 My hab got plenty, plenty medcin, my no savvy 
 what-for to pay he. Maskee my savvy how muchee 
 medcin one piecee man one-tim belongey chow-chow. 
 My catchee one piecee chop 1 top-side allo piecee med 
 cin he chop talkee how muchee must chow-chow 
 one-tim. S'posey you no f/aid you get spilum die-lo, 
 my pay you allo you sickee man one piecee yow, 
 galaw." He sick man talkee t'hat pidgin ve//y hood, 
 he allo chow-chow , medcin, he allo blongy well 
 by'mby an' walkee. 
 
 By'mby England-side when one piecee ffin askee, 
 " How hab got t'is pidgin allo maskee ? " Captin he 
 talkee so-fashee, " Ai yah ! My hab payum medcin, 
 by'mby man-man' 2 allo yow wailo my no hab more, 
 only one largey piecee yalmg-yow " (t'hat talkee, opium 
 
 1 Chop, inscription, prescription, or label. 
 
 2 Man-man, slowly, gradually.
 
 CAPTAIN JONES AND HIS MEDICINE-CHEST. 9 1 
 
 in MandaZin ; Canton-side he talkee apeeri), "long-side 
 one piecee scissors. My finishee allo, so-fashion. 
 Hab got only one piecee sick man left. My 
 makee so-fashion : my payum opium to make he 
 sleep, t'hen takee che-endza" (t'hat scissors) "an' 
 poke he to wakeum up. Man-man allo man well, 
 allo yow wailo." 
 
 He Captin Jones he one piecee ve//y cu/io man 
 inside he mouth. Fan-kwei allo too muchee cufio. 
 Chinaman savvy how to cureum ; supposee one 
 piecee man poo-shoo-foo (t'hat talkee, sickee) better allo 
 fan-kwei. No hab got loh-Uong-Chii-Su (he Medcin 
 Joss) outside China-side.
 
 fceluent 
 
 belongey so good kuhnpanty or mafoo 
 (t'hat talkee, servan' man) allo so p/opa as 
 China-side. Sometim maskee he too muchee 
 good, galaw. One-tim one piecee mandarin hab come 
 to he house, too muchee long tim in nightey, allo 
 man inside he catchee shleep. Mandarin he makee 
 one piecee bobbefy ph'ho/ he makee muchee bob- 
 befy by'mby he make ear-hear t'hat one piecee 
 mafoo walkee inside. He cly too much largey, 
 "What for you no come? What for you you no 
 let my room-inside ? " He mafoo talkee by'mby, 
 " No can do. No hab got stockin' on. No can go 
 fore-side, Massa, supposee my no catch stockin'. 
 Wait my put 'em on ! " He Massa say, " Taidza ! " 
 (t'hat talkee China-fashion, "Foolo/") "Come, mas 
 kee, wit'h no stockin' ! " He makee stop nother-tim, 
 mafoo no come. He Massa too muchee ang/y, he 
 cly, " What for no come now 1 Chop-chop ! " 
 He mafoo talkee, " No can come chop-chop. How 
 can do? My makee what Massa talkee my my 
 takee stockin' off!" 
 
 Allo tim olo custom China-side to makee what
 
 THE OBEDIENT SERVANT. 93 
 
 Massa talkee you to makee. Supposee someting no 
 be allo pfopa t'hat Massa he pidgin, galaw. T'his 
 sto/y he come outside one piecee olo China book he 
 chop " Kuang-lin-hsaio " t'hat talkee, " BZoad Forest 
 of Laugh." No hab fan-kwei stoZy so pfopa as China 
 stoly.
 
 f&ofoqua antr tfje pearls. 
 
 |LO Howqua, he one piecee vetty largey 
 Hong ma-chin, sartin before-tim you plenty 
 hearee all-same Howqua. He catchee 
 plenty dolla'. One-tim one piecee Mexican gentleum 
 talkee long-side Howqua, he talkee allo 'bout pearlee. 
 Olo Howqua he talkee, " My wifee she vetty cu/io 
 'bout pearlee; she blongey so-fashion, she likee one 
 kind pearlee, no other chop * can do. Supposey my 
 catchee pearlee other fashion, galaw, she no look-see 
 'urn." Me/ican he askee, " What fashion pearlee she 
 likee?" Howqua talkee, " Belong so-fashion. Sup 
 pose t'hat pearlee numpa one found, he whitey 
 colour look-see all pZopa, belong too much largey 
 allo-same inside palace that EmpeZo' catchee top 
 side he manda/in hat suppose wantchee buy, pay 
 t'hat golo-man plenty dolla' supposey belong so- 
 fashion, my wifey too muchee likee, galaw. What 
 ting you tinkey ? " 
 
 Supposey you hearee plenty talkee 'bout fashion. 
 Ch'hoy ! my tinkee China-woman, fan-kwei woman, 
 
 1 Chop, kind or sort.
 
 HOWQUA AND THE PEARLS. Q5 
 
 allo woman, allo tinkey allo-same inside he mouth. 
 What ting you pay plenty dolla', he allo tim good 
 fashion. Catchee plenty dolla', t'hen allo tim you 
 catchee first-chop fashion. Fa ts'ai /fa ts'ai /
 
 Cofo antr tfje Compratrotx 
 
 NE-TIM one mornin' belong tiffin-tim in 
 Canton one piecee fan-kwei no catchee 
 milk for ehow-chow. He talkee comp/adore, 
 " What for no got milk ] " and makee one big bob- 
 bey. Comp^adore he too muchee fiaid, galaw. He 
 talkee gentleum, " My ve//y much chin-chin you, you 
 hearee my talkee. Supposey no can catchee milk, 
 how fashion can do ? " T'hat fan-kwei talkee, " You 
 no can makee so-fashion. Catchee milk belong your 
 pidgin. You savvy you catchee one piecee cow 
 makee milk, hab got one dog look-see he, one piecee 
 woman take careum. What for no can do ? " Com- 
 pZadore he too muchee f/iten, he cly out one piecee 
 sing-song 
 
 " T'hat cow hab die-lo, 
 T'hat dog hab wailo, 
 T'hat woman catchee chilo 
 How can catchee milk ? " 
 
 Supposey sometim you go China-side, you hearee 
 t'hat sing-song. Now my hab talkee you what for
 
 THE COW AND THE COMPRADORE. 9/ 
 
 he makeum. And when one piecee man talkee you 
 t'hat pidgin, supposey you say, " My Zeedee t'hat long 
 tim go in one piecee book he first-chop pukkha 
 book s'posey you buy-lo." (Massa pay my cumshaw 
 for talkee him allo t'his.) 
 
 G
 
 Efje (Efjinese antr tfje 
 
 jNE-TIM one Jew -man lib Calif ornee-side 
 makee one big piecee bobbe/y long-side one 
 Chinaman. He callo Chinaman plenty 
 bad name ; he callo la-li-loong, all-same tief-man ; he 
 too muchee saucy, galaw. By'mby Chinaman no 
 likee t'his pidgin, he velly ang/y, he talkee Jew so- 
 fashion, " Ch'hoy I You one big piecee foolo-man. 
 Allo man talkee you foolo, you no chow-chow chu- 
 me-lung, he nicey pigtail d/agon what you callo 
 ' loin of pork.' My savvy you. You bad man 
 you velly bad man you too muchee bad. 
 
 " You too muchee bad, by Gosh ! 
 You kiliee MeZican-mau's Josh." 
 
 Sometim my hear-lo Me/ican-man say, " By Josh ! " 
 My tinkee he stop China-side, he catchee t'hat word 
 f/om Josh. Me/ican-man catchee plenty China word. 
 Chinaman callo he fast opium-boat fa-hai-teng (that 
 talkee, fast dab); Me/ican-man he callo one piecee
 
 THE CHINESE AND THE JEW. 99 
 
 fast horse "fast cZab" all-same. Me/ican talkee 
 " first-chop," and say he makee someting " so- 
 fashion." Massa pay my one piecee cumshaw for 
 talkee he t'his pidgin.
 
 Efje SEoollg l^en anti tfje i&etr 
 
 NE-TIM one piecee yunki sho-je-man l come 
 China-side, t'at ting talkee one gliffin, 2 he 
 no savvy too muchee, galaw. He f/in he 
 
 se"-li-man what-tim he lib ship-side makee he big 
 foolo, talkee he plenty big lie 'bout wat belongey 
 China fashion. 
 
 One day t'his yunki sho-je-man catchee chow-chow 
 long-side he f7in inside Canton. Yunki gentleum he 
 talkee, " What for my no look-see allo tim my stop 
 t'his side not one woolly kin, not one Iwong (t'at 
 talkey led] goose ?" He ftin say-lo, " "Whati foolo- 
 pidgin t'at you talkee 1 How can hab woolly hin 
 how can hab led goosey 1 " He yunki man talkee, 
 " My savee, maskee, plenty t'at ting belongey China- 
 side. One piecee takta 3 ship-side talkee my t'at 
 pidgin ; my savvy t'at takta-man, he no talkee sah- 
 hwong " t'at one lie. 
 
 He ffin talkee, " My bettee you one han-tun 4 dolla' 
 you no look-see one woolly hin, not one v'milion-color 
 goosey, allo China-side." Yunki man he bet, he makee 
 
 1 Young officer. s Griffin, a new-comer. 
 
 3 Doctor. 4 Hundred.
 
 THE WOOLLY HEN. IOI 
 
 come he shaman, 1 one China boy, he talkee him allo, 
 askee t'at boy if he hab look-see woolly hin, led 
 goose, China-side. 
 
 T'at China boy he catch much smart inside. He 
 talkee, " Sartin hab t'at ting iniside, but he no 
 be plenty, galaw. He woolly hin, he Zed goose 
 he allo Joss-pidgin ting Joss-man no wantchee fan- 
 kwei to look-see t'at. No hab in Canton, allo t'at 
 pidgin inside land. Maskee," he talkee, " suppose 
 Massa pay my tunti, tatti 2 dolla', my wailo look-see 
 pi 3 one piecee pukkha hin-goose for Massa." 
 
 T'at China boy he wailo look-see he Chinee fZin ; 
 my tinkee he hab muchee pidgin, galaw, allo t'at 
 nightey. Sun-sun 4 mornin' he Massa hear-lo one ting 
 outside, talkey, "Cluk-luJc-luJc-lukJcy;" nother piecee ting 
 talkey, " IFis-sis-sis-sis-sis." He gentleum talkee, 
 " Wat dam ting hab got iniside ? what for debilo 
 makee allo dis bobbe/y 1 " He look-see outside hab 
 got one piecee woolly hin dat look-see allo same fashion 
 one piecee littee two-leg sheep, galaw ! Long-side hab 
 got one piecee goosey, he goosey allo same color one 
 fire-c/acker. Yunki gentleum he too muchee glad 
 inside, he callee China boy, he talkee he " hood 5 boy " 
 he pay-lo one piecee cumshaw. 6 China boy talkee, 
 "My stealee he hin-goosey inside one Joss-house. 
 Must pay-lo back ; supposey Joss-man savvy youcatchee 
 
 1 Servant. * Twenty, thirty. 3 Pi, buy. 
 
 4 Very early. B Good. * Present.
 
 IO2 THE WOOLLY HEN. 
 
 t'at ting he killee you sartin." Yunki man he go 
 look-see he fZin, he too muchee sassy, galaw. China 
 boy walkee behind side he, he hab got hin-goose 
 iniside he arm. Yunki man look-see fZin, he shpeak- 
 ee, 1 " Wat ting you talkee this-tim ? Supposey you 
 tinkey no hab woolly hin supposey no hab Zed 
 goosey supposey my one piecee dam foolo, galaw ? 
 Ctiho/ 2 wat you tinkey now?" He f7in no savvy 
 wat tinkey, allo must pay-lo he one han-tun dolla'. 
 He look-see t'at allo pZopa pidgin ; hin hab got wool 
 allo pukkha, goosey hab got p/opa colour all-same. 
 EmpeZor posha 3 he name top-side galantee chit. 4 
 
 China boy no stop 'chee 5 tim, he talkee, he want- 
 chee too much to wailo long-side hin-goosey to Joss- 
 house, he kali 6 payum back to Joss-man. My 
 tinkey t'at China boy catchee too muchee-muchee 
 smart inside, my fZaid supposey hin-goosey hab stop 
 largey tim inside fan-kwei house he catchee sickee, 
 galaw ; he fedders by'mby belongey sflate all-same, 
 nother hin, he goosey no Zed, allo he colour spoilum. 
 T'at muchee pity, galaw, suppose he hin-goose catch 
 sickee, so he hood China boy takeum wailo, 7 he so 
 much hood heart iniside he no wantchee look-see 
 t'at poo' goosey gettee white, all-same one sick 
 man. 
 
 1 Speak, say. * An interjection. 
 
 3 Posha, write (unusual,C.V.) 4 Grand letter. 
 
 8 Long, i.e., muchee. 6 Kali, want, care. 
 7 Away, back.
 
 liucfcs. 
 
 NE piecee Chinee one-tim belongey Californee- 
 side, he walkee, he look-see one piecee 
 littee housee, t'hat place he Me/ican man 
 dig golo. 1 Mexican man chin-chin Chinaman sup- 
 posey sit-tsik, 2 Chinee he makee allo maskee, he makee 
 sit-tsik, he catchee hab-tim, 3 he look-see two piecee 
 duckey walkee top-side wata, he talkee chee-chee, 4 
 " Kwok-wok-wok, yok-ok-kok." Chinee he make ear-hear 
 allo duckey talkee, t'hat man catchee plenty muchee 
 Zeason China-side. 
 
 By'mby Mexican askee what for he makee he sit 
 still so muchey tim, what for he look-see duckey ; 
 Chinaman say, " My hear-lo, my savvy allo he duck 
 talkee, my catchee t'hat pidgin China-side, galaw." 
 Me/ican chin-chin 5 t'hat Chinaman talkee wat ting 
 he duckey hab talkee. Chinee hear-lo nother tim, 6 
 by'mby he talkee, " Duckey talkee so-fashion he 
 shpeakee, 7 'To nightee must catchee "too muchee 
 
 1 Gold. * Sit down (unusual, C. V.) 3 Leisure. 
 
 4 Chee, long, a long time. 6 Beg. 
 
 Again. 7 Says.
 
 IO4 THE TALKING DUCKS. 
 
 lain, galaw, no blongey so muchee lain t'his-side longa 
 tim.'" Me/ican talkee, " S'posey t'hat allo maskee, 1 
 betta my savvy t'hat ting t'han catchee taushan 2 
 dolla'." 
 
 T'hat Chinaman stop t'hat-side allo nightey an' what 
 he hab talkee t'hat allo pfopa pidgin an' come tAie. 
 T'hat nightey he hear-lo sun au-sai 3 he lain come 
 chop-chop 4 top-side house, plenty much. By'mby, 
 b/ight-sun, what-tim Mexican man look-see he, Mexican 
 talkee, " Supposey my no hab savvy what-tim he lain 
 come, t'hat all-same so bad my lost taushan dolla'." 
 Maskee he no givee t'hat Chinaman cumshaw, 5 not 
 one littee nip-te-cashee, G he too shmallo man inside, 
 he no makee p/opa fashion, p'ho I 
 
 Chinaman sit down to-tim, 7 he hearee duckey talkee, 
 "Kwok-wok-wok,yok-ok-ok." Mexican he talkee, "Wat ting 
 he duckey talkee t'histim, galaw? " Chinee laughee,he 
 say, "T'hat one piecee duckey talkee nother duckey; 
 he say, ' Supposey you wantchee too muchee golo, 8 
 no can do here. Must wailo ou-sy, 9 what-side t'hat 
 big tlee belongey, 10 t'hat-side catchee too plenty 
 golo ; supposey you dig that-side. T'hat allo pfopa.' 
 Duckey savvy t'hat golo-pidgin, he allo-tim walkee 
 t'his-side, t'hat-side look-see dirt. Suppose you makee 
 
 1 Right, true. 2 One thousand. 3 Early outside. 
 
 4 Quick. 5 A present. 6 One little small coin. 
 
 7 Sat again (two times). 8 Gold. 
 
 9 Go outside, i.e., away (C.V.) 10 Is.
 
 THE TALKING DUCKS. IO5 
 
 wat-ting l he duckey talkee, you makee p?opa pidgin- 
 maskee." 2 
 
 Chinee he wailo, Mexican he tinkey t'hat ting allo 
 maskee; he makee dig makee muchee dig; he pay 
 ou-sy plenty taushan dolla', all-same he no catchee 
 golo. T'hat pidgin allo sickee. 3 Muchee day muchee 
 moon by'mby t'hat Chinaman ko-hom. 4 T'hat-side, he 
 look-see t'hat Me/ican, Me/ican makee iron-facey at 
 Chinee. Chinee he make laughee inside he mouth, 5 
 maskee 6 he no make show, he no talkee, he look-see 
 allo-same one piecee littee chilo. Chinee he talkee, 
 " Hab catchee golo 1 " Mexican talkee, " Dam you 
 duckey ! nohabgot golo." Chinee he sit downy nother 
 tim all-same side, he duckey come, talkey, " Kwok-wok- 
 wok " all-same before-tim. Me/ican talkee, " Wat ting 
 he duckey talkee t'his tim, my wantchee savvy I" 7 
 Chinee he shpeakee, 8 " He duckey talkee, Supposey 
 one piecee Chinee tellee you wat ting allo-same one 
 taushan dolla' hood for you, 9 you no pay-lo 10 he one 
 cumshaw, 11 you muchee smart inside. Supposey 
 nother tim t'hat Chinee pay you what duckey talkee, 
 s'posee you tinkey t'hat allo maskee, you one piecee 
 big foolo you too muchee foolo, galaw." 
 
 One piecee Chinee-man, he my f/in, hab makee t'his 
 
 1 That which. 2 That which is right. 
 
 3 That business languished. 4 Returned. 5 To himself. 
 
 6 However. 7 Know. 8 Said. 
 
 9 Anything worth to you a thousand dollars. 10 Give. 
 11 Present.
 
 IO6 THE TALKING DUCKS. 
 
 pidgin Californee-side he talkee my allo t'his iniside 
 Ning-po. My f7in talkee plenty Zeason. He shpeakee, 
 " Supposey you makee one piecee man muchee hood 
 pidgin, supposey t'hat man too-muchee shmallo iniside 
 to pay-lo you cumshaw allo-tim t'hat man belongey 
 foolo sometim you easy makee cheat he. He allo- 
 tim foolo." Massa no foolo, Massa all-tim pay my 
 largey cumshaw for tell he China-fashion sto/y.
 
 kittle Mitt. 
 
 HINAMAN he makee allo-tim 1 so-fashee 2 
 China-side. Supposey one piecee fata 3 
 flog he bull-chilo, 4 supposey t'hat chilo too 
 muchee largo man, all-same 5 olo man he must 
 catchee floggum, no other ting can do, wat-tim fata 
 nik-ki 6 he. Can makee cly-cly, no more can do. 
 All-same fashion, put-lut-ta 7 floggee yang-shee-lut- 
 ta, 8 yeung-ki floggee nip-pa, 9 ha-sze-man 10 floggee 
 waifo, 11 mata 12 floggee kai-chilos, 13 massa floggee 
 kung-pat-to, 14 kung-pat-to floggee sha-man. 15 Sup 
 posey one Chinaman hab catchee waifo by'mby 
 maskee 16 he gettee nother piecee waifo. He numpa 
 one waifo talkee 17 "largo 18 waifo" China- fashion, 
 
 1 Always. - Thus in China. 3 Father. 
 
 4 Son. 5 Be he a large or an old man. 
 
 6 Nik-ki, strike (unusual). 7 Elder brother. 
 
 8 Younger brother. 9 Nephew. 10 Husband. 
 
 (All these terms for relatives are from a Chinese vocabulary, 
 but are unusual.) 
 11 Wife. 12 Mother. 
 
 13 Kai-chilos, i.e., cow-children, daughters. 
 
 14 Compradore. 15 Servant. 16 However. 
 17 Is called. 18 Large, here meaning superior.
 
 IO8 THE LITTLE WIFE. 
 
 numpa two he talkee "liklci waifo." 1 Allo t'his 
 pidgin belongey 2 olo cutsom. Supposey numpa 
 one waifo floggee likki waifo, likki waifo no can 
 do, 3 must catchee floggee all-same supposey 4 t'hat 
 numpa one waifo belongey he mata. T'hat p/opa 
 pidgin for he. 
 
 One-tim one Chinee ma-chin 5 he blongey two 
 piecee waifo. Numpa one waifo he ve//y likki, 6 
 numpa two he one piecee ve//y largo woman, all-same 
 she catchee too muchee floggee, numpa one flog 
 t'hat. other waifo allo tim. Numpa two no can do 
 one ting. 
 
 One nightey he ma-chin he waifos hea/ee one 
 piecee big bobbery outside house. T'hat belongey 
 one han-tun la-li-loong 7 wantchee catchee he one 
 che-sze (chessy) full nip-ti cashee 8 hab got too-plenty 
 dollar in-i-si. 9 Ma-chin he too muchee f/iten, waifo 
 numpa one she too muchee f/iten, allo makee cly-cly, 
 galaw. Numpa two he littee waifo, she no kali 10 for 
 la-li-loong n what fashion you tinkey she makee ? 
 She catchee one piecee sword she wailo bottom-side 
 housee she open mun (t'hat talkey dow) she talkee 
 tief-man he Nii-ts'ai/ 12 She talkee, " Who man you 
 come t'his-side? Mypayyoufloggum,sA00%-cAw-s/iaw<7/ 13 
 
 1 Little wife. 2 Pertains to. 3 Can do nothing. 
 
 4 All just as if the head wife were her mother. 
 s Merchant. 6 Small. 7 One hundred robbers. 
 
 8 A chestful of ready cash. 9 Inside. 10 Care. 
 
 11 Thieves. 12 Nu-ts'ai / slave! 13 You little beasts.
 
 THE LITTLE WIFE. 1 09 
 
 Sa-ni-ko-tow. 1 He fightee hood, he cham-tow 2 one 
 piecee la-li-loong t'hat woman he no kali for la-li- 
 loong. By'mby he tief allo wailo numpa two t'hat 
 shmallo waifo he wailo in-i-si house. She no dy-dy, 
 t'hat-tim numpa one wifey too muchee dy-dy. 
 
 Plenty man come chop-chop, he allo wantchee 
 savvy what fashion he likki waifo 3 hab larn 
 fightee pidgin, how can do swordee. He numpa 
 two talkee, " My fata 4 he teachee sword, no hab man 
 China-side savvy so good sword-pidgin 5 all-same 
 my fata. He tai-pai 6 swordman he makee my 
 larn t'hat ting before-tim. 7 Supposey you one piecee 
 good swordman, you no kali 8 for one han-tun la-li- 
 loong 9 ch'hoy ! 10 he no can do." 
 
 Allo man talkee 'hood n to likki waifo, wat fashion 
 he makee allo so pfopa, how galanti 12 fashion hab 
 make t'hat numpa one waifo no catchee kill. Allo 
 man chin-chin he, Pili 13 he hear-lo, he make pay-lo 
 cumshaw. 14 Waifo numpa one he lose face, 15 he 
 too muchee shame, he plenty solly inside 16 he so 
 muchee hab nik-ki 17 he shmallo waifo. Not'har tim 
 he no nik-ki he shmallo waifo, by'mby he likee 18 he 
 too muchee, galaw, all-same kai. 19 
 
 1 I'll cut offyour heads. 2 Cut off the head. 
 
 3 Second wife 4 Father. 5 Fencing. 6 Chief. 
 
 7 Long ago. 8 Care. 9 Robbers. 
 
 10 Ha ! " Kind, good. 12 Grandly. 
 
 13 Prince, here the Emperor. 14 Gave a present. 
 
 15 Was much ashamed. 16 Grieved. 17 Struck. 
 
 18 Shee-hwan, loved. 18 Daughter.
 
 JFire anU 
 
 plenty man foreign debilo go inside 
 country, makee chow-chow. Englishman 
 he talkee l pic-nic China - side no got. 
 By'mby allo man finishee chow-chow; plenty man 
 too muchee dZunk. One piecee g/iffin 2 talkee he boy, 
 " Just now my wantchee smokum pipe. Chop na-ho 
 lai 1 " belong Englishee talkee, " Pay my t'hat liber ! " 
 T'hat boy wantchee laugh, he too muchee f/iten 
 thinkee he massa velly d/unk, no savvy what ting 
 he talkee. He massa look-see t'hat boy no makee 
 wailo, tinkee he no hab hear, he \etty largey talkee 
 he, " Na-ho-lai/" maskee t'hat boy no can sabby, 
 talkee he massa, " No can do." He massa wantchee 
 flog he ; t'hat boy makee cly-cly, talkee, " How 
 fashion my can pay liber 1 " He master talkee he, 
 " My no wantchee liber my wantchee fire." And 
 t'hen he massa talkee so-fashion, allo China boy 
 makee laughum. "Blong massa talkee Chinee, no 
 hab talkee p/opa. Massa talkee, ' Na-ho-lai /' pay 
 
 1 Calls it. 
 
 2 Grijfin. A new-comer, a greenhorn (Anglo-Indian slang).
 
 FIRE AND RIVER. I I I 
 
 my t'hat /i&er .' nother-tim massa more betta talkee, 
 ' Na-huo-lai ! ' blong pay my t'hat fire / " 
 
 Englishman no can talkee Chinee, he no plenty 
 smart inside. Allo Chinaman talkee Englishee all 
 p/opa all-same my.
 
 name blong Norval top-side t'hat too 
 
 high mountain 
 My too muchee olo fata pay t'hat sheep 
 
 he chow-chow. 
 He smallee-heart man ; too muchee take care 
 
 catchee t'hat dollar, galaw ! 
 He wantchee my stop t'his side, countee my 
 
 his own piecee chilo ; 
 My no wantchee my hab hear talkee t'hat fightee- 
 
 pidgin, 
 
 My like fo' long t'hat Mandarin knockee allo man. 
 Littee tim Joss pay me what ting my fata no likee 
 
 do. 
 Last nightey t'hat moon get up Zound, allo-same my 
 
 hat, 
 
 No get full-up, no get square ; 
 Too muchee quiri (queeree) man come down t'hat 
 
 hill; 
 
 Catchee t'hat sheepee, catchee long t'hat cow 
 He own take care him away.
 
 NORVAL. 113 
 
 My go catchee my fZin my own eye hab see 
 What-side t'hat Zobber-man walkee. 
 He no care him away lie pocket too muchee fill up, 
 Hi yah ! my largee heart t'hat tim my hab go horn, 
 My no likee take care t'hat sheep long t'hat cow. 
 
 Anonymous.
 
 feceistor. 
 
 HAT nightey-tim begin chop-chop 
 One young man walkey, no can stop, 
 Maskee snow, maskee ice, 
 He caWy flag with chop so nice 
 Top-side galow ! 
 
 He muchee soZfy one piecee eye 
 Look-see sharp so all-same my, 
 He talkey largey talkee strong, 
 Too muchee curio all-same gong. 
 Top-side galow ! 
 
 Inside house he can see light, 
 And eve/y loom got fire all fcght, 
 He lookee plenty ice more high, 
 Insidee mouth he plenty c?y, 
 Top-side galow !
 
 EXCELSIOR. 1 1 5 
 
 Olo man talkee, " No can walk, 
 By'mby fain come velly dark, 
 Hab got water, ve//y wide." 
 Maskee, my must go top-side, 
 Top-side galow ! 
 
 " Man-man," one girley talkee lie, 
 " What for you go top-side look-see 1 " 
 And one tim more he plenty c/y, 
 But allo-tim walkee plenty high, 
 Top-side galow ! 
 
 " Take care t'hat spoilum t/ee, young man, 
 Take care t'hat ice. He want man-man." 
 T'hat coolie chin-chin he, " Good-night ! " 
 He talkee my can go all /ight, 
 Top-side galow ! 
 
 Joss-pidgin-man he soon begin 
 Morning-tim t'hat Joss chin-chin, 
 He no man see him plenty fear, 
 Cos some man talkee he can hear 
 
 Top- side galow ! 
 
 i 
 
 T'hat young man die, one large dog see 
 Too muchee bobbe/y findee he. 
 He hand blong colo all-same ice, 
 Hab got he flag with chop so nice, 
 Top-side galow.
 
 Il6 EXCELSIOR. 
 
 MOEAL. 
 
 You too muchee laugh ! what for sing 
 I tink so you no savvy t'hat ting ! 
 Supposey you no blong clever inside, 
 More betta you go walk top-side, 
 Top-side galow ! 
 
 This anonymous parody of " Excelsior " was introduced to the 
 reading public in " Macmillan's Magazine " and Mr Simeon's 
 entertaining work " Meeting the Sun." 
 
 [In concluding these Ballads and Stories, the author has only 
 to add that he would be greatly obliged to those of his readers 
 who would kindly send to him (care of N. Triibner, Ludgate 
 Hill, London) any specimens of Pidgin-English, whether in 
 prose or rhyme, letters, anecdotes, sayings, &c., and especially 
 any words or phrases which do not occur in the following voca 
 bulary.]
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY.
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 IN this Vocabulary C. V. indicates that the word is taken 
 from a Chinese vocabulary of Pidgin-English, M. that it is 
 Mandarin-Chinese, and Canton, from the Canton dialect. 
 These Chinese words are seldom or never heard in pure 
 Pidgin, but their utility in certain cases is manifest. For 
 the Mandarin words I am indebted to " Chinese Without 
 a Teacher," by H. A. Giles ; for those from the Chinese 
 Vocabulary, to a MS. version by Prof. R. K. Douglas ; 
 and for many other terms, as well as for much kind 
 assistance and suggestion, not only to these gentlemen, 
 but also to Ng Choy, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, to Mr Th. A. 
 Arnett, and Mr R. Scott Walker. I have in this collec 
 tion also given many Anglo-Indian and other words not 
 strictly Pidgin, but as they are constantly occurring in it, 
 or are used by Englishmen and Americans in China, they 
 have a certain relation to the dialect. 
 
 A. 
 
 Ah-kwan-tsae, gentleman. 
 
 Ai ! Hai ! a very common interjection. It frequently precedes yah. 
 
 Hai yah f fan-kwei lo! Ha, foreign devils ! (foreigners.) 
 Allo, all-o, all ; every. " Allo man talkee my so-fashion." 
 AU-plopa, quite right. 
 
 All-same, like ; as ; similar ; identical ; agreeing with. 
 Ama,h, a Chinese nurse. Hindu, ayah. In Mandarin dialect, 
 
 lowmar.
 
 I2O PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Au-lo i.e., olo, old. (C.V.) 
 Au-sai, outside. (C.V.) 
 
 Bad heart, used to express all forms of evil-mindedness. " You 
 belongey too muchee bad heart." 
 
 Banjee (Anglo-Indian?), band of music. 
 
 Barbly, babble ; noise. Too muchee barbly, too much noise. 
 
 Before-tim, formerly ; once ; previous ; previously. 
 
 Belongey, Blongy, Blong, indicates the pertaining to in a very 
 wide sense. Also applied to quality. "You belongey too 
 muchee saucy, galaw." "My belongy Consoo boy" I am 
 the Consul's servant. " You belong clever inside " You are 
 intelligent. " You belongy foolo." 
 
 Bobbery (pron. bobbely), the English slang word, but extended 
 in Pidgin-English to signify every kind of noise, disorder, 
 quarrel, disagreement, fuss, and trouble. "T'his my flin, 
 he wantchee makee one littee piecee pidgin long-side you. 
 S'posey you cheatum, my makee big bobbery wit' you." 
 Newspaper. Vide Barbly. 
 
 Boilum, to boil. " My boilum tea." 
 
 Bottom-side, below ; down ; under ; low. 
 
 Bright-sun, to-morrow i.e., ming-yat. (Canton ; not in use.) 
 
 Bull-chilo, male child. Becoming obsolete. 
 
 Bund, quay; embankment. (Hindu.) 
 
 Bunder, a report ; canard ; a story which has obtained currency 
 on the quay or bund. 
 
 By'mby, by-and-by, or any future time or occasion ; after ; after 
 wards ; again. 
 
 C 
 
 Cab-tun, captain. 
 
 Callee, curry. 
 
 Candareen, a coin (seldom seen), value one penny. In Chinese, 
 Fan. 
 
 Can do, indicates, like ' ' yes ? " many forms of ability or possi 
 bility e.g., Can you? Is it possible? It is possible. A 
 mandarin seeing a small English sailor thrash a large one, 
 exclaimed, " Hai yah! littee man can do." "My no can do 
 that " may mean " I will not do it." 
 
 Cango (Japanese), a kind of couch or litter, carried under a pole 
 by two men. Tlie Eastern Seas, by Capt. B. W. Bax.
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 121 
 
 Cangue, a frame used to confine prisoners ; a kind of movable 
 stocks, through which the head is passed. 
 
 Cash, the only current coin in China, value one-tenth of a penny. 
 In Chinese, Li. 
 
 'Casion, occasion; reason; cause. "You no 'casion makee so- 
 fashion. 
 
 Catchee, to get; have; own; possess; hold. " My look-see one 
 piecee man catchee chow-chow" I saw a man eating. "My 
 catchee waifo" I am or am to be married. "My no 
 catchee one fftn inside allo that housee" I have not one 
 friend in all that family. 
 
 Catty. "The unit of weight for metals used in Asia, equal in 
 China to 600 '399 grammes ; in Siam, 613 '468. " Larousse. " A 
 Chinese weight equal to 1 Ib. 4 oz. It is also used in Japan, 
 Batavia, and other parts of India. A weight of 3 grains 
 used in the East for weighing precious stones." Richardson. 
 
 Char, chair ; a sedan-chair. 
 
 Cliee, long. Probably an abbreviation of muchee. (C.V.) 
 
 Chee, or Jee, the common termination for words ending in t or d 
 e.g., want, w&ntchee. 
 
 Che-sze i.e., Chessy, chest; box. (C.V.) 
 
 Ch'hoy, a meaningless, but common and very expressive, inter 
 jection. 
 
 Chilo, child. 
 
 Cliin-cliin, to worship (by bowing and striking the chin) ; to reve 
 rence ; adore ; implore ; to deprecate anger ; to wish one 
 something ; invite ; ask. 
 
 Chinee, Chinese ; Chinaman. 
 
 Chit, a letter. (Hindu.) 
 
 Chop, inscription ; label ; stamp ; device ; motto ; ticket ; char 
 acteristic. Numpa one first-chop, best ; superfine. 
 
 Chop-chop, quick ; quickly ; fast. 
 
 Chow-chow, food ; to eat. Specially applied to a kind of sweet 
 meat made of a great variety of material, e.g., melon rind, 
 bamboo sprouts, small fruits, &c. In India a variety of ob 
 jects, or odds and ends in a basket, &c., is called chow-chow. 
 
 Chow-chow, to have a meal. In Mandarin, chihfahn. 
 
 Chu-me-lung, pig-tail dragon i.e., a loin of pork. Not used in 
 Pidgin-English. 
 
 Chu-shung (correctly, Sheon-chu-shang), " you little beast," or 
 animal. 
 
 Coco, a Japanese measure of rice.
 
 122 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Colo, cold. 
 
 Come-tMs-side, arrived here. "Just now hab 'got two piecee 
 joss-house-man come-this-side " Two missionaries have 
 arrived. 
 
 Compradore, steward. In Mandarin, mi-palm. 
 
 Consoo, consul. 
 
 Coolie, common man ; labourer. 
 
 Cot-houso, court-house. 
 
 Cow-cMlo, girl. Becoming obsolete. 
 
 Cow-oil, or Cow-grease, butter. Obsolete, but literally trans 
 lated from the Chinese word for butter. 
 
 Culio i.e., curio, curiosity; queer; odd; strange; peculiar. 
 Curio-shop, curiosity-shop. 
 
 Cumshaw, a present. 
 
 Cutsom i.e., custom, applied to law and habits, &c. "T'hat 
 blongey olo cutsom." 
 
 D. 
 
 Deen-seen-hong, the Eastern Extension Australia and China 
 
 Telegraph Company, Shanghai. 
 Devllo, or Debilo, devil. 
 Die-lo, die ; died. 
 Dlinkee, to drink. 
 Dollar. Money or wealth is generally expressed by dollar. " He 
 
 no hab catchee dollar " He made no money. 
 Dragon, a favourite Chinese emblem and simile. 
 
 E. 
 
 Ee, a common termination put at will after almost any noun or 
 
 verb. Walkee, talkee, fishee, dog-gee. 
 Ee-sheung, clothes. (M.) 
 E-ta-lee-kwoh, Italian. E-ta-lee-kwok-kung-kwan, the Italian 
 
 Consulate. 
 
 F. 
 
 Facey, Facie, Facee, face ; character ; self-possession. Loosee 
 facey, to loose character ; to be put to shame ; to be discon 
 certed.
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 12$ 
 
 Fai, five. (C.V.) 
 
 Fai, or Fy, a fire. 
 
 Fai-tee, quickly! be quick ! "A pure Chinese phrase, but com 
 monly used by Europeans." Fitee-fitee! very quick ! hurry! 
 
 Fa-ke, American i.e., flower- flag. Fa-ke-ling-se-koon, the United 
 States Consulate. (Hong-Kong.) 
 
 Fa-ke-kwok, flower-flag-nation. 
 
 Fa-lan-sai, French. Also Flan-sai, Flun-see, and in the " Direc 
 tory," Fat-lan-se; in the " Amoy Directory," Wo-lan-sai. 
 
 Fan-kwel, foreign devil i.e. , a foreigner. 
 
 Fan-yun, foreign man ; foreigner. 
 
 Fasson, fashionable. 
 
 Fast crabs, smugglers. Fa-hai-teng. In America this term, or 
 fancy, is applied to very fast-trotting horses. 
 
 " De fellers mit de vancy crabs 
 Pooled up to see him pass." Hans Breitmann. 
 
 Fa ts'al ! fa ts'al ! get rich ! get rich ! A common courteous 
 
 greeting. (M.) 
 
 Fei-chaw-shang", the green-tea country. (Canton.) 
 Feng-shuey, the Earth Dragon, (?) a spirit supposed to travel in 
 
 the air; the geomantic influences of the earth, influencing 
 
 lucky or unlucky places ; luck or fate ; elemental and occult 
 
 influences. 
 Finish.ee, the common word for completed, done, finished, or 
 
 accomplished. 
 First-chop, best ; first. 
 Fi-sze i. e. , Fishee, fish. (C. V. ) 
 Flin, friend. 
 
 Flower-flag-man, American. 
 Flower-heart i.e., many hearts; fickle; wavering; generally 
 
 said of lovers. 
 Fo, four. (C.V.) 
 Foo-lin i.e., Flin, friend. (C.V.) 
 Foolo, fool ; full. (C.V.) 
 
 Foong-shun, " The Sailors' Home." (Shanghai.) 
 For-what ? or, What for ? why ? 
 Fo-tin, fourteen. (C.V.) 
 Fowlo, fowl. 
 
 Fo-yok, fire physic. (Canton.) 
 Fung, male. (M.)
 
 124 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Fung-hwang, phoenix ; a fabulous bird ; the token of prosperity 
 and happy omen ; majesty ; grace ; colour. Fung is the 
 male, and hwang the female phoenix. (M.) 
 
 G. 
 
 Galanti, grand ; great. (C.V.) 
 
 Galaw, Galow, Gala, Gola, G'low, a word without meaning, 
 used as an interjection, like halt in South German. 
 
 Girley, girl. 
 
 Glound (i.e., ground or earth) chit, a telegram. 
 
 Go, used to indicate the future tense. ' ' You go make that ting ? ' ' 
 Do you mean to do that ? 
 
 Go-down, warehouse ; small house, &c. 
 
 Golo, gold ; golo-man, jeweller. 
 
 Good-talkee, Velly good-talkee, an excellent opinion or expres 
 sion ; eloquence. 
 
 Good wind ! Good water ! the Pidgin-English farewell to a 
 friend starting on a journey. 
 
 Got e.g., Hob-got, there is ; you got 1 have you ? 
 
 Grass-wood-man. " The Chinese call simple, rustic people 
 Grass- wood-men." Celestial Empire, July 24, 1875. 
 
 Griffin (Anglo-Indian), one newly arrived ; a greenhorn. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hab, have. 
 
 Hab-got, is ; there is ; has. 
 
 H&k-cha, black tea. (Canton.) Hay CWah (M.) 
 Ha-loy, come down. (Canton.) 
 
 Handsome talkee, fine, agreeable, or ornate language. 
 Han-tun, a hundred. (C.V.) 
 Ha-sze-man i.e., Has-a-man, husband. (C.V.) 
 Have gbt wata top-side, mad ; cracked ; foolish. 
 Haw, to driuk. (C.) 
 
 He, used for he, she, it, or they ; often includes is. 
 He-foo, rise-fire i.e., a rocket. (Canton.) 
 Hing-ki-chi (C.V.), Han-ker-choo, handkerchief. 
 Ho, 2 river. (M.) 
 
 Hoan-lam, the Pencil forest i.e., the highest degree of literary 
 graduates. (Canton.)
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 125 
 
 Ho-hop-ki, to drink (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Ho-lan-kwoh (kwok), Dutch. 
 
 Ho-ming, Renter's Telegram Company is so termed in the 
 
 " Shanghai Directory." 
 Hong', Haling, a warehouse ; applied specially to the great firms 
 
 which formerly regulated all Chinese commerce. (M.) 
 Hoong, red. (C.) 
 Hop, have. (C.V.) 
 Hop, half. (C.V.) 
 
 Hop-fa-sze i. e. , Hab fasson, fashionable (not much used). (C.V. ) 
 Hop pi-tsin i.e., Hab pidgin, have business. 
 Hop-tai i.e., Hab die, dead. (C.V.) 
 Hop-tim, leisure. (C.V.) 
 Houso, house. 
 How, good. (M.) 
 How-fashion, what for? why? what is the meaning? "How 
 
 fashion you stop out so late ? " 
 How-tak-tsei, very good. (M.) 
 Huo, 3 fire. (M.) Na-hutf-lai, bring fire. 
 Hwan, fire. (C.) 
 Hwan-na-kou, foreign dog. (M.) 
 
 Im-koy, not ought. (Canton.) " Used politely accepting or ask 
 ing for a civility ; thank you." 
 
 Ing-ki (Inkee), ink. (C.V.) 
 
 Ink-e-li, English. Ying kwo (M.) 
 
 Inside, within ; in ; interior ; heart ; mind ; soul ; in the country. 
 "You belongy smart inside " You are intelligent. A Chinese, 
 on being shown the picture of a locomotive, at once remarked, 
 "Hab got too much plenty all-same inside" i.e., "We have 
 many such in the interior of China. " Hab got one piecee 
 man, one piecee girley room inside." "Room inside," 
 within. 
 
 Inside he heart, same as "Inside he mouth." 
 
 Inside he mouth, secretly in his mind ; to himself ; reserved. 
 
 In-sy, inside. (C.V.) 
 
 Iron-face teet-meen (Canton); t'eeay layeen (M.) stern; obdu 
 rate; cruel; severe.
 
 126 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jade, a hard greenish, green, or reddish stone, found in Tartary, 
 
 much used for ornaments. Mandarin, yii. 
 Jah, to fry. (M.) 
 
 Jahn-fahng, a go-down; warehouse, &c. (M.) 
 Jahng-moo, a bill. (M.) 
 Jih-zee-pah-nee-ah, Spain. 
 Jin-rick-sha, a vehicle like a Bath chair, drawn by a man. 
 
 (Japanese.) 
 Jin-rick-sha-man, a man who draws the jin-rick-sha. Celestial 
 
 Empire, Oct. 14, 1875. 
 Josh i.e., Joss, god ; idol. 
 
 Joss, god ; idol, &c. (From the Portuguese Dios.) 
 Joss-house, temple ; church. 
 Joss-house-man, clergyman. 
 Joss-pidgin, religion. 
 Joss-pidgin-man, a bonze ; priest ; clergyman. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kai, daughter (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Ka-lan-ti i.e., Galanti for grand, great.* (C.V.) 
 
 Kali, to want ; care (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Ka-lin, to call. (C.V.) 
 
 Kam-kwat (called by Europeans cum-kwat), a kind of small 
 
 orange. (M.) 
 
 Kam-ma-she-yun, commercial. Hong-Kong Directory, 1875. 
 Kam-pat-to, compradore. (C.V.) 
 Kana-man, artillerist. (C.V.) 
 
 Kaou-lo, cold i.e., Colo in the common dialect. (C.V.) 
 Kilin i. e. , Kleen, or Gleen, green. 
 Ko-au-sei i.e., go outside ; return. (C.V.) 
 Ko-hom, return. (C.V.) 
 Ko-lock, clock. 
 Kong, a water-vat. " He fell into a huge water-kong." Celestial 
 
 Empire, Oct. 2, 1875. 
 Kow-tow, to incline before ; bow. 
 Kuk-man, cook. (C.V.) 
 Kum-leen, golden water-lilies i.e., the small feet of Chinese 
 
 women.
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. I2/ 
 
 Rung-lie ! kung-he ! congratulatory phrase on the birth of a 
 
 child, or on success in examinations. (C.) 
 Kung-kwan, consulate. 
 Kwai, tortoise. (M.) 
 Kwei, a devil ; devils. 
 
 L. 
 
 L, used by all Chinese for R in Pidgin-English. 
 
 Lahnt'o, lazy. (M.) 
 
 La-li-loong, a thief ; thieves. " The barber complained he had 
 been called a la-li-loonff, the Pidgin-English for thief." 
 Celestial Empire, 1876. 
 
 Lan-tun, London. 
 
 Largee, Largey, Largo (g soft), much ; great ; magnanimous ; 
 loud. "My largo man, my have catchee peace, my have 
 catchee war." Points and Pickings of Information About 
 China (London, 1844). 
 
 Lam-pidgin, an apprentice ; a boy admitted by favour of the 
 upper servants to a house that he may learn English and 
 domestic duties. Vide Introduction. 
 
 Lau-tai, a ladder. Lau-tai-kai, Ladder Street. Hong -Kong 
 Directory. 
 
 Lay, thunder. (M.) 
 
 Layang yeendza, a tael. (M.) 
 
 Layeen, face. (M.) 
 
 Lee-pi, a week. (M.) 
 
 Leet'o, inside. (M.) 
 
 Li, a Chinese mile (pron. lee). "Although at the present day 250 
 li make' a degree, they have varied in the past under different 
 dynasties and in different provinces." Deguignes, Les Navi 
 gations des Chinois, &c., Memoires de V Academic, d-c. "He 
 told as many Its as there are between Canton and Pekin." 
 Nine Stories of China. 
 
 Li, to come. (M.) Woa li la, I have come. 
 
 Likki, little (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Lira, eleven. (C.V.) 
 
 Lin, rain i.e., Zain. (C.V.) 
 
 Littee, little. 
 
 Liu- shu, willow. (M.) 
 
 Lo, a termination which frequently follows vowels or liquids e.g. , 
 die-lo, die ; olo, old.
 
 128 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Lod-yay, old father ; a term of respect. (Canton.) 
 
 Lo-kwat, a fruit. (Canton.) 
 
 Long-side, with ; by ; near ; accompanying. 
 
 Look-see, look ; behold ; appear like ; see ; appreciate ; under 
 stand. 
 
 Look-see pidgin, ostentation ; hypocrisy ; sham. 
 
 Loosee, to lose. Loosee facee i.e., face, to be dishonoured or 
 shamed ; to lose reputation. 
 
 Love-pidgin, love ; courtship ; wooing ; tenderness. 
 
 Love-love-pidgin, sensuality j voluptuousness. Applied to erotica 
 in books or art. 
 
 Lowdah, captain of a junk, or servant in charge of a house-boat. 
 
 Lii, donkey. (M.) 
 
 Lii, green. (M.) 
 
 Lungan, the wild lychee-tree. (M.) 
 
 Lull-tun, London. Lun-tun-ch'iin-kau-ui, " The London Mission 
 ary Society " (in Staunton Street, Hong-Kong). 
 
 Lussu, stork or crane. (C. ) 
 
 Liit, red i.e., Zed. (C.V.) 
 
 Lych.ee, a fruit. 
 
 M. 
 
 Mace, a coin (seldom seen), value about eightpence. In Chinese, 
 
 Tsien. 
 
 Ma-chin, merchant. (C.V.) 
 
 Mafoo, horse-boy ; groom. " Talkee mafoo to come chop-chop ! " 
 Man, ahorse. (M.) 
 Mah-tung, a stirrup. *(M.) 
 Mai-pan, compradore. (Canton.) 
 Makee, to make ; do ; effect ; cause e.g., " Suppose you makee 
 
 buy." It is almost generally prefixed to verbs to make them 
 
 active. 
 
 Ma-kwa, a riding-coat. 
 Mandalin or Mandarin, a high state official or grandee. From 
 
 the Portuguese. 
 Man-man, slowly. 
 Maskee, all right ; correct ; never mind ; notwithstanding ; 
 
 nevertheless ; however ; but ; anyhow. This word is used 
 
 in a very irregular manner. It is not Chinese, its equivalent 
 
 in Mandarin being poo-yow-cheen. 
 Massa, the common word for master.
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. I2Q 
 
 Ma-sze-ki i.e., Mashkee or Maskee, it is all good. This form 
 of spelling and definition, as given in the Chinese " Voca 
 bulary of Words in Use among the Red-Haired People," 
 indicates the original pronunciation and meaning of this per 
 plexing word. 
 
 Ma'ta, mother. (C.V.) 
 
 Maw, ink. (M.) 
 
 Mei-le-keen-kwok, American. (Canton. ) 
 
 Melican, American. 
 
 Mi, to sell. (M.) 
 
 Ming-pak, bright-white i.e., to understand clearly. (Canton.) 
 
 Ming-pi, clever. (M.) 
 
 Ming-yat, bright-sun i.e., to-morrow. (Canton.) 
 
 Missee, miss. 
 
 Mississee, mistress. 
 
 Mit-chi-man, an officer's boy i.e., midshipman. (C.V.) 
 
 Molo-man (i.e., Moro, a Moor), a negro. 
 
 Moon-pidgin, monthly. 
 
 More-betta i.e., better. " My more-betta go 'way" Superior. 
 
 Mowdza, hat. (M.) 
 
 Muchee, very ; intensified as muchee-muchee. 
 
 Mun-lee, money (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 My, my ; I ; me ; mine. Sometimes we, our, or ours. 
 
 N. 
 
 Na, no. (C.V.) 
 Nai, to take. (M.) 
 Nan-li, bring. (M.) 
 
 Na-hop i.e., No-hab, given as meaning without in the C.V. 
 Nai, nine. (C.V.) 
 Nai-foo, knife. (C.V.) 
 Nai-ti, night. (C.V.) 
 Nar? where? (M.) 
 Naw, you (unusual). (C.V.) 
 Nee, you ; plural, Nee-mun. (M.) 
 Nep-fa-lan, Netherlands. 
 Nightey, night. 
 
 Nik-ki, to strike (unusual). (C.V.) 
 Nip-pa, nephew. (C.V.) 
 
 Nip-te kashe, "liberty cash" i.e., ready money (unusual). 
 (C.V.) 
 
 I
 
 I3O PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Nitchky, a grotesque little image ; a Japanese button for the 
 girdle. 
 
 No-belong leason (i.e., reason), it is not reasonable. 
 
 No-can, it is not good ; I cannot ; it will not do ; impossible. 
 
 No can do, cannot. No can do? can you not? 
 
 No fear ! in very common use in Pidgin-English. 
 
 Nother, another ; other. 
 
 Nother-tim, again. 
 
 Not ought, should not. " You not ought makee so fashion." 
 
 Numpa one, number one ; first-class ; very. " Dat tea belongey 
 numpa one" i.e., best. A Chinese servant being asked if a 
 certain person lived in the house, replied, " Hab got top-side 
 t'hat numpa one ugly Englishee lawyer, all-same so-fashion," 
 accompanying the description with a significant grimace. 
 
 Nu-ts'ai, slave. (M.) 
 
 Nil -yen, woman. (M. ) 
 
 O. 
 
 Olo, old. 
 
 OlO cutsom, indicates everything established or usual. " That 
 
 belong olo cutsom." 
 One piecee, one piece ; one; a; an. One pe-sze (C.V.) "You 
 
 catchee one piecee wifey?" Are you to be married, or, 
 
 Have you a wife ? In Canton, yi-kozhen. 
 One-tim, once ; only. 
 Osso ! Ossoty ! be quick ! make haste ! 
 Outside, foreign. Ngoi-kwok (Canton), outside nation. Wi- 
 
 kwo (M.) 
 
 Outside old river, the Yang-tse-kiang. Ngoi-kong-lo (Canton). 
 Outside-the-river-man, a man from the north of China. Ngoi- 
 
 kong-yun (Canton). 
 Owmoon, Macao. 
 
 P. 
 
 P'ahndza, plate. (M.) 
 
 Pahngdza, maize. (M.) 
 
 Pak-taw-kwei, white-headed devils i.e., turbaued Mohamme- 
 
 tans or Parsees. (Canton.) 
 Paou-cheong, or Paou-tseong, gunpowder ; crackers. (Cantou.)
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Pa-pa-man i.e., barber-man. (C.V.) 
 
 Far-sa-mum, a tree bearing a luscious fruit. 
 
 Pa-ti-li, a priest. (C.V.) From the Portuguese padre. 
 
 Pay, to give ; bring ; deliver ; transfer ; as well as pay. My pay 
 
 fie, I gave him. 
 Pay-ching, Pekin. (M.) 
 
 Pay-wine, beer. (Canton.) Pay-tsaw (Canton.) 
 Pecul. " In commerce, an Indian measure, equal to 100 catties 
 
 [vide Catty], or 132 Ibs. avoirdupois." Richardsun. 
 Pee, pen. (M.) 
 Peedza, nose. (M.) 
 Ph'ho ! an interjection. 
 
 Pi, to buy (unusual). (C.V.) "Pi u-at-ting, to buy things." C. V. 
 Pidgin, business ; affair ; occupation ; a word of very general 
 
 application e.g., joss-pidgin, religion; chow-chow-pidgin, 
 
 eating or cookery. Probably the Chinese pronunciation of 
 
 the word business (Pi-tsin, C.V.), according to others of the 
 
 Portuguese ocupacao. 
 
 Pidgin- English, English as imperfectly spoken by Chinese. 
 Piecee, Piecy, with the prefix one, signifies a or an, as well as 
 
 piece or portion. 
 
 Pi-li, emperor (unusual). (C.V.) 
 Pi-me, raw rice. (M. ) 
 P'ingdza, bottle. (M.) 
 Ping-ling, a girdle. (C. V. ) 
 Pi t'ahng, sugar. (M. ) 
 Play-pidgin, sham ; humbug. 
 Plenty, much; very; very much. "He makee walkee plenty 
 
 high." Parody of Excelsior. 
 Plopa, proper ; commonly used for good, right, correct, well, or 
 
 nice, in the most extended forms. ' ' Dat allo pfopa pidgin " 
 
 That is all right. 
 Pomelo, a fruit. 
 Poo-poo, purple. 
 
 Posha, to write (unusual). (C.V.) 
 Powfoo, bundle. (M.) 
 
 Pukkha, true ; real ; genuine ; best quality ; the real thing. 
 Punkah, a machine for fanning. 
 Puttee, book. (ludian.) A term used on the completion of a 
 
 contract. In a retail shop the term used for concluding a 
 
 purchase is "makee shuttee." This Hindu term is used in 
 
 contradistinction to lutcha, meaning imitative, unreal.
 
 132 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quirl (query, qu?), curious ; queer. From the parody of Norval, 
 
 R. 
 
 (Fide L.) 
 
 Room-inside, within. Pron. loom-inside, 
 Busskl, .Russian. Pron. tusski. 
 
 S. 
 
 Sa-kl, spirit made from rice. (Japanese.) 
 
 Sam, seven. (C.V.) 
 
 Same, generally used with all, all-same, which see. 
 
 Sam-pan, a Chinese boat. 
 
 Sam-shoo, rice spirits. 
 
 Sa-ni-kow-tow, I'll cut off your head. Often heard among com 
 mon people. (M.) 
 
 Sassee, Sassy, saucy ; proud. " You belongey too-muchee sassee, 
 galaw." 
 
 Sa-van, servant. 
 
 Savvy, know ; understand. No savvy ? do you not know ? (Por 
 tuguese.) Used in the widest sense. 
 
 S6-li-man, sailor. (C.V.) 
 
 Selum, sell. (C.V.) 
 
 Setty, Settee, settled ; arranged ; used in business when a bar 
 gain is agreed upon. " My have setty can puttee book." 
 
 Se-wei-tun, Sweden. 
 
 Sha-man, servant. (C.V.) 
 
 Sha-pi (sabby, savvy), understand (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Shawt'o, tongue. (M.) 
 
 Shee, to wash. (M.) 
 
 Sheeang-kwah, melon. (M.) 
 
 Sheen, letter. (M.) 
 
 Shin, a good spirit. (Canton.) 
 
 Shleep, sleep. Shi-lip (C.V.) 
 
 Shmallo, small; mean; small-minded. Sze-ma-lo (C.V.) 
 
 ShO, hand. (M.) 
 
 Sho-cheen, towel. (M.) 
 
 Sho-che-man i.e., sho-je (or sojer) maw soldier. (C.V.) 
 
 Shoo, tree. (M.)
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 133 
 
 Shooey, water. (M.) 
 
 Showdza, spoon. (M.) 
 
 Shpeakee, to speak. Sze-pik-ki (C.V.) 
 
 Snummo, what; why. (M.) "Nee way shummo poo li? Why 
 don't you come ?" Chinese Without a Master. 
 
 Shu-sun-koon, General Post Office. (Hong-Kong.) 
 
 Sick, out of order ; out of repair. 
 
 Side, place; country; situation. "What side you blongey?" 
 Where is your home? "He hlongey China-side now" He 
 is in China. Side qualifies prepositions and adverbs e.g., 
 top-side, above, or high ; bottom-side, far-side, beyond ; this- 
 side, here ; dllo-side, around. 
 
 Sik-kan-mit, second mate. (C.V.) 
 
 Sik-sze (six-ee), six. (C.V.) 
 
 Sing-song, any dramatic or musical entertainment ; a song ; 
 ballad ; poem. 
 
 Sing-song -houso, a theatre. 
 
 Sit-tsik (shit^tsik), sit down (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Smellum-wata (water), eau-de-Cologne ; perfume. " Pay my 
 that smellum-water ! " 
 
 Spi-lum, Spoilum, injure ; to injure; rotten; decayed ; broken. 
 Very extensive in its applications. 
 
 Squeeze, a fine or imposition. 
 
 Su"n, early; soon. (C.V.) 
 
 Supposey, suppose ; if ; admit. A word of very general applica 
 tion. 
 
 Sycee, silver ; dollars bearing merchants' stamps. 
 
 " Some ask me what the cause may be 
 That Chinese silver's called sycee? 
 But probably they call it so 
 Because they sigh to see it go." 
 
 T. 
 
 Tael, a coin (seldom seen) worth six shillings and sixpence. ( Vide 
 "The Current Gold and Silver Coins of all Countries," by 
 Charles Triibner.) In Chinese, Siang. "The Chinese terms 
 for coins, except the cash or li, are, properly speaking, deno 
 minations of weight. The cash are coins cast of base metal, 
 with a square hole in the centre. The media of payment 
 in larger transactions are gold and silver ingots of variable
 
 134 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 weights and fineness, and the Spanish and American dollars." 
 
 C. Trubner. 
 Taldza (Tai-toze), idiot ! 
 
 Tai-fo-neen, great examination year for degrees. 
 Tai-pai, a large ticket ; a great chop. 
 Tai-pan, great series i.e., the first of a series a head man ; a 
 
 "boss." 
 
 Tai-pay, great beer i.e., porter. (Canton.) 
 Tai-yun, great man ; excellency. 
 Tak-ta, doctor. (C.V.) 
 Talkee, tell ; say or talk ; inform ; ask. " He talkee my no can 
 
 do" He told me it was impossible. 
 Talkee-leason i.e., talk reason, moral or literary discourse ; wise 
 
 maxims or extracts. 
 
 Ta-mei-kwoh-tsung-ling-sze-yamun, the United States (Ameri 
 can) Consulate General. 
 
 Tanka, egg-house i.e., a boat in which people live. 
 Tan-kwoh, Danish. 
 T'atti, thirty. (C.V.) 
 T'attin, thirteen. (C.V.) 
 Tau-shan, thousand. (C.V.) 
 Tau-ti, civil governor. 
 
 Ta-ying-ling-shi-shu, the British Consulate. 
 Ta-ying-sho-sun-kwan, the British Post Office. 
 Te" ( day (unusual). (C.V.) 
 Te-le (Tlee), three. (C.V.) 
 Te"-li-man, tailor. (C.V.) 
 That, often used as indicating in Pidgin-English^when it would be 
 
 omitted in ordinary English e.g., that man, he. 
 T'hat, a peculiar and common pronunciation of that. 
 That-same, that. 
 That-side, there. 
 That-tim, then ; when. 
 
 This-side, here. " Hab makee stop t'his side." 
 Tiffin, lunch. (Indian.) 
 
 Tim (Teem), time ; is employed with all adverbs of time. 
 Tin, ten. (C.V.) 
 
 Tin, thin i.e., light, not heavy. (C.V.) 
 Ting, thing. 
 
 Ting-ki, thank you ( unusual). (C. V. ) 
 Tinkee, think. 
 Tin-mak, Denmark.
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 135 
 
 Toi-tche, German i.e., Deutsch. 
 
 To-lo-li, good ; passable (tolerably ?). 
 
 Too, very. " You too bad." 
 
 Too-muchee, very ; excessive. " You too-mucb.ee hansom " You 
 
 are very bandsome. 
 
 Top-side, above ; on high. ' ' Top-side galow. " Excelsior. 
 Top-side piecee Heaven pidgin-man. Mr Francis, editor of the 
 
 Troy Times (U.S. A), writes that a native convert designated 
 
 the Methodist Bishop Harris by this epithet. 
 Tui-lip, twelve. (C.V.) 
 Tun-ti, twenty. (C.V.) 
 Two-tim, twice ; again. 
 
 U. 
 
 Ull, shopkeeper (unusual). (C.V.) 
 U-lup, Europe. 
 
 Understand ? a very common expression for Do you understand ? 
 lit (pron. oot i.e., 'ood, 'h<xyl), good (unusual). (C.V.) "Ut 
 man" Good man. 
 
 V. 
 
 Van - ts'ang - koon - sz, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. 
 (Shanghai.) 
 
 W. 
 
 Wai-fo (Wifey), wife. (C.V.) 
 
 Wai-li-ut, good condition i.e., gone good (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Wailo, Wy-lo, go away ; away with you ! go ; depart ; gone ; 
 
 departed ; went. 
 Walkee, to go, in any way. " China-man wear two watch. 
 
 "What for? Supposee one makee sick, t' other walkee." 
 Wantchee, to want. 
 Wat, what. Wat fa-sze (C. V.), what fashion ; what kind. " What 
 
 fashion you do that ? " 
 
 Wata, water. " Hab got wata top-side" Mad, foolish, cracked. 
 Wat-ting ? what is it ? what ? 
 Wei-yuen, great officials. 
 What for ? why ? wherefore ? because. "What for you makee so 
 
 fashion ? "
 
 136 PIDGIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 
 
 W hat-side, where. " What-side my can go ? " "Where can I go ? 
 
 What-tim, when. 
 
 White-ant, a female marriage-broker. 
 
 White -mice, Chinese bahes of the poorer class. When blind, 
 
 they are called blind-mice. 
 Who-man ? who ? " Who-man makee Wake t'hat one-piecee 
 
 Willow-waist, expressive of a fine female figure. 
 
 Woa, I. (M.) 
 
 Woamun, we ; us. (M.) 
 
 Woamunty, our ; ours. (M.) 
 
 Woaty, my; mine. (M.) 
 
 Wun, one. (C.V.) 
 
 Won pi-sze, one-piecee. (C.V.) 
 
 Y. 
 
 Ya-mun, Ya-men, a mandarin or prefect's residence ; a consulate. 
 
 Yang-shi-butta, younger brother (unusual). (C.V.) 
 
 Yat, eight. (C.V.) 
 
 Yat-i-man, German. Yat-yee-man-ling-se-koon, the Austriun- 
 
 Hungarian Consulate. (Houg-Kong.) 
 Yen, 1 swallow. (M.) 
 Yen 2 (second tone), goose. (M.) 
 Yeung-M i.e., Unkey, uncle (unusual). (C.V.) 
 Ying-j en, Englishman. (M.) 
 Ying-ling, England. Ta-ying-ling-shi-shu, the British Consulate. 
 
 (Shanghai.) 
 
 Ying-kwo, English nation. 
 Yin-ke-li, English. 
 Yu-loh, a shop (?) ; shopkeeper. (C.V.)
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH NAMES. 
 
 THE following Chinese renderings of personal or local 
 names are taken from the Chronicle and Directory for 
 China, Japan, and the Philippines for 1874 (Hong-Kong, 
 "Daily Press" office). 
 
 Ae-mih, Eames. 
 
 Ah-li-feh, Oliver. 
 
 Akala, Agra, the Agra bank. 
 
 A-lee-pat, Albert. 
 
 A-lee-pat-tau, Albert Road 
 
 (Hong-Kong). 
 Ap-pa-teen, Aberdeen. 
 A-pun-nee, Albany. 
 A-put-not-tau, Arbuthnot. 
 A-sze-ka-E-sze-mo, Hadji Ali 
 
 Asgar H. Esraail. 
 A-tam-se, Adams. 
 Ba-la-tah, Brandt. 
 Be-da-be-se, B. Davis. 
 Bee-oz-bee, Bigsby. 
 Be-le-u, Bellevue. 
 But, Bird. 
 
 Chak-man, Chapman. 
 Chan-shi-lee-hong, Chancery 
 
 Lane (Hong-Kong). 
 Cha-ta, Chater. 
 Cha-teen, Jardine (Matheson 
 
 &Co.) 
 Cha-wai, Jervois. 
 
 Chim - me - son, Jameson (& 
 Barton). 
 
 Dah-loong, Deslandes. 
 
 E-lee-kan, Elgin. 
 
 Em-pi-as-chow-tim, Empire 
 Tavern. 
 
 Eoo-slie, Vaucher. 
 
 E-pa-la-nlm, Ebrahim. 
 
 Fo-go, Vogel. 
 
 Fok-kiin-na, Falconer. 
 
 Ga-lock-i-san, Gerlach (Dr). 
 
 Gip, Gibb. 
 
 Go-bu, Gottburg. 
 
 Got-te-le-yin-tsze-koon, Gu 
 tierrez, R. F., printer. 
 
 Ham-po-tsow-tim, Hamburg 
 Tavern. 
 
 Hap-bi-boy, Habibbhoy. 
 
 Hee-lee-kai, Hillier Street 
 (Hong- Kong.) 
 
 Ho-cliing, Hutchings. 
 
 Ho-hwa-way, Rodewald. 
 
 Ho-la-da-wei-se, Holloday, 
 Wise, & Co.
 
 138 
 
 PIDGIN-ENGLISH NAMES. 
 
 Ho-lee-ut, Hollywood. 
 
 Horn-see, Holmes (G.) 
 
 Hot, Heard. 
 
 How-wat, Howard. 
 
 Im-pai-pa-lew-wa-lee, Empire 
 Brewery. 
 
 Ka-ham, Graham. 
 
 Ka-lo-lin, Caroline. 
 
 Ka-lut, Garrett (Miss). 
 
 Kao-lin (also Ko-lun-shi), Col 
 lins. 
 
 Kaou-yih, Cowie. 
 
 Kap-pi-lee-kai, Cleverly Street 
 (Hong-Kong). 
 
 Kan-hung, Corne. 
 
 Kee-cheong, Russell & Co. 
 
 Kee-lee-mun, Gilman. 
 
 Kee-lee-sz, Giles. 
 
 Keng-ming, Cumming. 
 
 Kit-cM, Gage. 
 
 Ko - fu - kai, Gough Street 
 (Hong-Kong). 
 
 Kok-lun, Cochrane. 
 
 Ko-lo-sa, Kruse. 
 
 Ko-lo-wit-se, Carlowitz & Co. 
 
 Koo-ka, Cook. 
 
 Kum-boo, Campbell. 
 
 Lai - tun - shan - tau, Leighton 
 Hill Road (Hong-Kong). 
 
 La-man, Lament. 
 
 Lam-mat-A-kin-shan, Lam 
 bert, Atkinson, & Co. 
 
 Lane-ka-la-fat, Lane, Craw 
 ford, & Co. 
 
 Lan-se-teen, Landstie 
 
 La-see-lee, Russell. 
 
 Lau-len-sie, Laurence. 
 
 Le-be-son, Robinson. 
 
 Lee-ma-ter, Lemattre. 
 
 Lee-mee-ta-sz, Remedies. 
 
 Lee-nee, Rennie. 
 
 Ll-na-oze, Reynolds. 
 
 Lo-cha-lio, Rozario. 
 
 Lo-ling, Rawling. 
 
 Lo - long - ya - join - tze - koon, 
 
 Noronha & Sons, Government 
 
 printers. 
 
 Lon-tun-in, London Inn. 
 Lo-peen-sun, Robinson. 
 Lut-ta, Rutter. 
 Ma-ke-le-ga, Macgregor. 
 Mak-ken-chi, Mackenzie. 
 Ma-ko-wan, Macgowan. 
 Mak-ton-na, Macdonald. 
 Mak-tung-see, Maertens. 
 Ma-slia, Mercer. 
 Mat-chee-see, Melchers & Co. 
 Mat - ti - shan - ki, Matheson 
 
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 Pit-lit-che-sze-kai, Bridges 
 
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 Po-ling, Baldwin. 
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 Po-soo, Bourjau. 
 Pot-teen-cha, Pottinger. 
 Po-tung, Barton. 
 Qoong-deh, Thorndike. 
 Sai-mo, Seymour. 
 San-ta, Sander. 
 See-mit, Schmidt. 
 Seem-shun, Siemssen & Co. 
 Se-tak-ho-te-li, Stag Hotel. 
 Snae-lee-kai, Shelley Street 
 
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 Snap, Sharp. 
 Shap-tor-la, Sharp (Edmund) 
 
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 She-la-se, Schellhaas & Co. 
 Sing-fut-lan-sz, St Francis. 
 Si-sang-e-tsung, Johnston. 
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 Tak-kee-la, D'Aguilar. 
 
 Tam-son-han, Thompson & 
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 Tan-na, Turner. 
 
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 To-se, Dods. 
 
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 Wai-lum, "William. 
 
 Wak-ka, Walker. 
 
 Wak-lee, Wardley. 
 
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 Wa-tai-lee, Water Lane (Hong- 
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 Wat-sun, Watson. 
 
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