Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-23
NO. q.
Pigeon English.

Editorial Correspondence Laramie BOOmerang.
 The Journey over the Union Pacific
 road ls not filled with novelty after 1t
 has been repeated fifteen or twenty
 times, and yet when you consider the
 new people and the shifting incidents
 peculiar Co each trip 1t is always new. On board our train, and occupying one
 sectlOn Of the Ogallalla, was the oriental gentleman with the self-cocking name,
 who had been sent to Washington bV
 the Chinese government on special blts- mess connected with the affairs of state.
 He wore a long brOcaded, old gold gown with embroidered purple over skirt, cut plain and tied together with silk cord and unique buttons. He wore his hair plain and braided down the back and his silk boots with cork sOles looked like plug hat in gale of wind
 Everybody of course eyed him with curiosity and sighed to have some fun with him. One old lady, with reddish whlskers under her jaw, sidled up tO hlm at last and began to ladle out to him lot of choice pigeon English that attracted the attention of everybody in the car and broke up two well estab- hshed games of whist. After opening mp with girlisb earnestness and shouting at the Celestial SO that it rattled the ven- tilatOrs over her head, she began to en- large upon the beauties of the Rocky Mountain country.
 "Chinaman John, you sabes heap high mountains. All same Bunker Hiil. Heap snow, belly cold July all samee January. Melican man no hkee. Too cold? Make 'em chilblain all samee. Fleeze nose of, No good. You sabee me chin chiny
 Everybody waited with good deal of anxiety to see how the Chinaman would take it. He didn't move a muscle of the face till she got through, and he seemed Co be in doubt whether she had made herself clear. She ran her tongue out two or three trips and began tO mOisten her lips, so as tO begin agaln and go over the same trail, but the member of the chinese embassy mentioned tO her Co desist.
 'Ies," said he, II understand you, | think, as well as any maniac that l have ever listened to. hope you will have a pleasant trip tO the asylum, and that they will be more patient with you than | am. I am little irritable with lun- aucs, and | am prone to lose my temper and throw them of the train or jam them into the wOod-box, or knock them into the aisle and walk over their re- mains. Do not try to tell me about your misfortunes or explain how they came on you, for I do not feel any in- -erest in it, and 1t only infiames and enrageS me.
 Then he took cigarette and fan and went into the smoking room. There was D little hush for moment, then the whist games were resumed, and the wO- man with the chin whiskers opened her valise and took out pint bottle that mad some kind of cordial in 1t, and talk lng a large dose even for an adult, she ate few kernels of burnt coffee and suhsided.
 Pigeon English IS very pretty lan- -uage, but they are not teaching 1t very much in our public schools now, and every little while you run into a m snda- rim who don't know a word of 1t. If the -Linese government don't educate it's ministers so they can grapple with the ,tyle of Chinese spoken in the best fam- les of Omaha, those ministers are liable u have a lonely time of it.