William Ashmore

“ Why so? Both—liáng-kâi, jī-ke. liáng-kâi chhou-chhou, both are coarse. jī-ke sie-mēn, both are quarrelling. nõ-nâng pên-pên-jiáng, the two men were alike wrangling. pí-chhṳ́ tie̍h-sūn kui-kṳ́, both must follow the custom. ”

“ And— ín-ki̍p, pẽng, kah, kũa. kan ín-ki̍p keng-chie kāng-chîn san-peh-chîn, oranges and bananas together were three-hundred cash. che̍k-kâi-ngṳ̂n pẽng-chîn sì-sek, a dollar and forty cents. bói-gô kah-chiah-koi, buy a goose and a fowl. i bōi che̍k-bóu-chhân kah-kũa che̍k-kò-hn̂g, he sold an acre of watered land and a piece of unwatered. Also—iā-ũ iā-bô, also have, also have not. õ, lṳ́ iā-tàn i-kâi-ūe, O, you also are talking his words. nâng gō-sí, cheng-sen iā-gō-sí, the men starve to death and the stock also starve to death. ”