3: The chaparral is green.
4. The new road is all right.
5. The bay-“rum” tree is fresh and pretty.
But as no Chinaman can pronounce the letter “r,” it was laboriously rendered thus, when the unhappy time of the lesson came:
1. The-glass-is-dly.
2. The-fluit-is-lipe.
3. The-chap-lal-is-gleen.
4. The-new-load-is-all-light-ee.
5. The bay-lum-tlee-is-flesh-and-plitty.
Finally, when she attempted to introduce the sentence, “Around the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal ran,” Hop Yet rose hurriedly, remarking, “All lightee; I go no more school jus’ now. I lun get lunchee.”