Evening journal., 1892-06-08
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Engli-h ms She IL spoken by Charley Kim
Of Chinatown in This city

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English ms she is spoken by Charley Kim
Of Chinatown in This city.
Charley Kim is Wilmington celestial
who says. "Let me wash the clothes of
this nation and ! care not who may make
It's laws Charley IS one of the most in
telligent Chinamen in the city. and he is
always trying to improve his English.
On several occasions when an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter has walked into the
laundry TO get his shirt and collar he
found Charley Kim and his employe
studying an Anglo-Chinese dictionary 1t
was probably this that led him to change
his name from Hop Wah TO Charley Kim.
One day recently the two seemed TO be
more deeply cngrossed than ever The
reporter became interested. Walking
over and peering between the heads Of
the two Cinnamon he found that Charlie
Kim had coupled the Jefferson a trans
parency. The inscription read Straw
berry Festival Tonight They had
just translated il TO their satisfaction,
being aided by the dictionary.
What does strawberry mean,
Charley Heap good, bout so big in
little box, dat nghty' Yes, that is
right. Now, what does festival mean.
Berry much good time Heap eat.
heap money spend. heap laugh, heap
good time. Seef
His replies were so ingenious chat the
reporter took the dictionary and asked
him TO define a number of words. In
prOnouncing the word Charley invariably
pronounced the last syllable first. Then
as IL he had discovered the key to the
situation he took the word as "a whole.
and gave his definitions as follows.
"A Man-Just anybody; one man.
"a Fan--No fan berry hot; fan make
good make it cold you know
"Abandon-Just no good no want it,.
"Abate-Charge too much / make
cheap little
"Abbreviate-l say want To fix me this
stick is long. / want TO make short little
when say just make little, dat mean.
"Abdomen-Call it belly, won't you.
Dat rightg
"Abhor-Just bad bad, ! no likee him,
dat man, no likee.
"Abide-Allee same where you live,
"Object-Just poor man an no good,
dat mean
"Abnity-Do up anything. alice same
dat man Jesus Christ, he do anything
strong.
"Able-can you do itg say yes. Dat
right
''Aboard--Just one ship, get mp Oh
ship.
"Abode-Allee same as abide
"Abolish-Three and three no good
abolish dem dat mekn See dat man,
pointing TO his assistantlg He no good
abolish him. Any fellow no good
"Abominntion-Bad master no good.
"Abound-Tree awful pretty and toe
much too. ehy
"About-About men I say about dat
long: ! don't know what it mean; about
dat big, about dat long about dat wide
dat mean
"Above-Top.
"Abreast-Say ] stand out dar; h,
stan out dat side En-
'Abroad-Re not home, dat me. H.
gone out.
"Abrupt-Go up a tree and make fal
down, dat mean Go up boy an ial
down quick.
"Abscond- To runaway quick
"Absent-"No here.
absolute Me not know.
''Absorb-Bring over dat way gon
down and dry.
'Abstain-Just good people, dat mean
Alice same Christian no smoke, no drink
no nothing. Just good people.
Abstract-"Pull out. dat mean.
Absurd Fool, no good
''Abundance-Too much; good many.
'Abuso-Sometime bad people speal
20 to hi No good. chr
"Aeodemy-sehool. Boy go TO schoo
house.
Accede--Sometimes fix anything
ask him how soon ho done, / want tC
morrow, can You do itg All right. II
say dat mean.
"Accent-Pr Pretty hard can't tell
Accept give place to You, yo
keep it,
"Access-From out go in, dat mean,
Accident Sometime people woul
drop money, find it, dat mean.
'Accommod te'-l.et do.
Accompany a man. Two me
go take walk, allie same go same way.
Accomplish people stea
Him not steal He am bad. but he n
steal lie know other man steal but /
stan Oh. He no takoe but he jus I
bad
"Bible-Church Biblcg Jesus Chri
book good book, ehg Talk Jesus Chris
, "God-Live in Heaven lie do up an
2 thing make 60 TO sunday school n
Z teacher say God take dust and make Il
! Ha ha ha Me no believe dat
{ "Betroth-B Before get married. Goo
s ''Blaspheme Sometime ] got mad
8 80 10 anotherm man. talk him no good.
d "Bladder-No good.
e "Blow-One wind blow, alice sam
? Make powder blow marble. Seer
- "Bleat-Sheop call lamb call ! do
know whether him sheep call or Ian
q call
% At this juncture his assistant. who III
e gone 10 the back room. knocked one
, two hot irons ON the hoor. and Charl
, shuiiled of TO see how the irons had M
b such an abrupt
f STORIES OF THE DAY.