Ebook: Pidgin-English Sing-Song

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1903. — 158 p.
Or Songs And Stories In The China-English Dialect; Sixth edition.It is not pretended that the language of the rhymes and stories in this volume will all be readily and immediately familiar to any person who may take it in hand, but it is certain that with a very little attention they can all be soon mastered. For those who expect to meet with Chinese, either in the East or California, this little book will perhaps be useful, as qualifying them to converse in Pidgin. There are in all not more than thirty altogether foreign or strange words in ordinary use, and a number of these are familiar to all persons of the least general information. "What remains can present no difficulty to any one who can understand negro minstrelsy or baby talk.