"In pidgin English the pronouns _he_, _she_, _it_, and _they_ are generally expressed by the single pronoun _he_. All the forms of the first person are included in _my_, and those of the second person in _you_. When we come to the verbs, we find that action, intention, existence, and kindred conditions are covered by _hab_, _belongey_, and _can do_. Various forms of possession are expressed by _catchee_ (catch), while _can do_ is particularly applied to ability or power, and is also used to imply affirmation or negation. Thus: 'Can do walkee?' means 'Are you able to walk?' If so, the response would be 'Can do,' while 'No can do' would imply inability to indulge in pedestrianism. _Belongey_ comes from 'belong,' and is often shortened to a single syllable, _b'long_. It is very much employed, owing to the many shades of meaning of which it is capable. Thus: 'I live in Hong-kong' would be rendered 'My belongey Hong-kong side,' and 'You are very large' would be properly translated 'You belongey too muchee big piecee.' "The Chinese find great difficulty in pronouncing _r_, which they almost invariably convert into _l_. They have a tendency to add a vowel sound (_o_ or _e_) to words ending with a consonant. Bearing these points in mind, we readily see how 'drink' becomes _dlinko_, and 'brown' _blownee_. Final _d_ and _t_ are awkward for them to handle, and _th_ is to their lips an abomination of first-class dimensions. 'Child' becomes _chilo_, and 'cold' is transformed to _colo_, in pidgin English. 'That,' and other words beginning with _th_, generally lose the sound of _h_, though sometimes they retain _h_ and drop the _t_ before it. 'Side' is used for position, and the vocabulary contains _inside_, _outside_, _bottom-side_ (below), and _top-side_ (above). _Chop-chop_ means 'fast,' 'quick,' 'immediately;' _man-man_ means 'slowly,' 'slower,' 'gently,' in the south of China; while at Han-kow, on the Yang-tse, it means exactly the reverse. At Canton or Swatow, if you say _man-man_ to your boatmen, they will cease rowing or will proceed very lightly; say the same thing to your boatmen at Han-kow or Ichang, and they will pull away with redoubled energy." "As we have learned the principles of this new language," Frank remarked, "we ought to be able to understand some proverbs in it. For instance, here are four that contain whole heaps of good advice, besides showing us how to read pidgin English: "'Who man swim best, t'hat man most gettee dlown; Who lidee best he most catch tumble down.' "'One piecee blind man healee best, maskee; One piecee deaf man makee best look-see.' "'One man who never leedee, Like one dly inkstand be; You turn he top-side downey, No ink lun outside he.'