Pidgin English is the dialect in use between the Chinese and the English. The Chinese pronounce our letter r at the commencement of a word as l.


The Tanner’s Chant.

Carol forth a canticle of demi-solidus

With grain in a commensurate degree,

Two-dozen darkly-feathered victims of a blunderbuss,

All coarctate ’neath pastry made with ghee,

By patient terebration, the aperture of the pie

Was effected with a lever-handled spoon;

When, judge the consternation of the monarch sitting by,