12.—Who looks after the messing on board ship? The people of the ship look after it.
13.—What costs most, travelling by water or travelling in a cart? One spends more travelling in a cart. What! Does the fare of a cart come to more than one’s passage on board a vessel? The cart costs more, the reason being that the people we hire our carts of in the north have also their money to make out of it.
1.—Chieh chieh. Tei ‘hei, koh ‘hei, tou ku i.
2.—Ngeh sui keh t’o ngeh, tei ‘hei ngeh koh ‘hei t’o.
3.—Nan pau, pei pau. 4.—Yi chiao niang.
5.—Niang niang. Tioh tiang. ‘Hei ‘hai. Ou to. Ou nieh. 6.—P’au k’a. Kuei p’au. 7.—‘Hi i. Hshou goh. Hsioh goh.
8.—Moung ‘hniu fa chieh chieh niang hang to ai. Niang p’au k’a. Vai tang chiu hao keh kou p’au k’a mai a ghou kuai ai. Tou ngieh kuei p’au ghou a ghou. Sai vai chiu nai koh hang to tou ghou. Lei p’au keh tiung a ku hsioh goh.
9.—Moung ‘hei keh ā niang lioh ā niang niang. Tou tiao ngieh fieh. Nan pau a mai lioh, ‘hei keh pieh k’a tou tiao niang niang. ‘Hei keh tiang tou tiao niang niu. ‘Hei hai pieh tiao niang ‘hlioh.
10.—Tiang keh tiung ou nieh a mai hai ou to.