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In leaving a box of candy, saved for him from the Christmas tree, was given him. "You will come again, Mr. Stirling?" said Mrs. Bohlmann, warmly. "Thank you," said Peter. "I shall be very glad to." "Yah," said Mr. Bohlmann. "You coom choost as ofden as you blease." Peter took his dress-suit to a tailor the next day, and ordered it to be taken in.
But before he could manage it, the thing was given a toss and up he went, high into the air. "Oh! Mine cracious!" he gasped and came down with a crash, to go up again an instant later. Then up and down went the boy, turning over and over, until he was all but dazed. "Stop! Murder! Fire! Robbers!" he roared. "Let me owid, kvick! I vos turning outsides in alretty! Oh, stop, von't you, blease!"
Hardgasdle; but it shall be all the fault wid himself, if it shall be but in print, whether I was rowed by one votdermans or by two votdermans. So, Togder Peepbush, you will blease to excuse me from dat. "Poor Dr. Pepusch was for a moment disconcerted, but it was soon forgotten in the first dish of coffee.
"Dot vos petter," complimented Hans; "bud id don'd peen loudt enough to blease Lieudenant Cordan." "Louder! louder!" ordered the yearlings. "Open your mouth and let the sound out. You can never expect to sing if you pen the words up in such a cavern as that."
The English are our friends; they're Christians like what we are. Blease God, they take this country like they taken Egybt, and gif the Turks an' Muslims good old Hell! Ha, ha! we're English, we are, just the same. The Turks all done for no dam' good. The Christians kick 'em all the time. They got to lick our boots, that's sure.
"Two dinars," said he. He had been talking to the soldier. Meanwhile Jo and Blease had found refuge in the house of the military commandant. It was a hovel like all the houses, but they were given a huge log fire which was built on the mud floor.
The squatter shamefacedly put his rifle away. "My name, suh, is Calhoun Blease," he said in a new manner. "I don't understand this yit, but I do not believe you are foolin' with me, suh." "If I am, you've still got your rifle," said Payne. "Now, tell me something: Didn't Mr. Garman send you word that my job was not to be molested or hindered?"
Then quietly, and looking for a moment singularly like a big, unhappy child, she asked: "Will you blease dell me, sir, why they will not give me the law of that dirty little man?" I knew and too well; but I could not tell her. "You see," I said, "it's just a case of your word against his."
At last he dropped the rifle in the hollow of his arm, keeping a ready thumb on the hammer. "Mine's Blease," he said at last. Roger regarded the man thoughtfully for a long time. To his surprise he perceived that Blease was not at all of the unfavorable type he had expected to find squatting in such a place.
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