[The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wrecker CHAPTER XV 10/26
Savvy plenty." "Oho!" cried Nares, "you savvy plenty, do you? (Beggar's seen this trick in the mail-boats, I guess.) Well, why you no savvy a little sooner, sonny ?" "I think bimeby make-um reward," replied the cook, with smiling dignity. "Well, you can't say fairer than that," the captain admitted, "and now the reward's offered, you'll talk? Speak up, then.
Suppose you speak true, you get reward.
See ?" "I think long time," replied the Chinaman.
"See plenty litty mat lice; too-muchy plenty litty mat lice; sixty ton, litty mat lice.
I think all-e-time: perhaps plenty opium plenty litty mat lice." "Well, Mr.Dodd, how does that strike you ?" asked the captain.
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