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"Undt dere iss blenty poor folk all about us," said Mrs. Kranz, shaking her head. "Lucky you are, dot you know noddings about idt." "Why shouldn't we know something about it?" demanded Ruth, quickly. "Do you mean there will be much suffering among our tenants because of this storm, Mrs. Kranz?" "Gott sie dank! nodt for me," said the large lady, shaking her head. "Undt not for Maria's fadder.
Me come more better country blenty everything. Father belonga me sit down. He got two good young fella gins. My word, good one gins. He say 'Hello! you come up? You sit down here altogether. Two fella good gins belonga you!" This was paradise! "I would admonish the world that all persons, indifferently, are not fit for this sort of diversion."
Mickie sings this song of inspiration most vigorously, when Jinny, his portly spouse, comes to "wash 'em plate" in the evening, and she explains with a fat chuckle "Mickie corrobboree loud fella. He fright. He think subpose he corrobboree blenty debil-debil no come up." Blacks are students of natural events.
"What you got in your hamper? blenty cognac, eh? Give us a pottle; that's better than mugs of ale, eh, poys?" and he laughed uproariously. "I shall give you nothing," said Mrs. Seymour firmly; "if you cannot read my safe-conduct yourself, is there not one of your men who can?"
Will you bromise, blease, to keeb it secret, what I'm goin' to tell you?" "Yes, rather! Fire away," said the Emîr. "Well, sir, I know of a blace where gold is found more blenty than the oranges in that garden we now come from." "You don't? You're joking!" The Emîr stared at him. "I do, sir. You know, there's lots of country neffer been exblored away there to the south and east, behind the Jordan.
No, Marny, you don't can lend me noddings. What vill yourselluf do? Starve!" "Where do you live, Schonholz?" asked Joplin. "By Fizzenbad." "What kind of a place is it baths?" "Yes." "What are they good for?" continued Joplin in a subdued tone. "Noddings, but blenty peoples go." "I can tell you, Joppy," said Pudfut gravely, with a wink at Malone. "There are two spas, both highly celebrated.
These did not seem to communicate anything of very special importance in addition to what she had already said, for she examined them closely and then merely summed up as follows: “Goot fortoon, goot blanet, goot vifes, blenty monish, mooch kindes, not more troubles in der footoor years, big friends, bresident mooch friends mit you, lif long, ninety-nine years before you die, leave fortoon to vife und two kindes.”
The Burkhammers asked no questions, and I went to sleep without giving any account of my strange visit, but about midnight I awoke myself and the whole family by my sobs. They gathered around my bed, and I must tell. What I said I do not know, but the old man interrupted me with: "Oh tamm Jim. You stay here mit us. My old woman und me, we has blenty. We dakes care of you.
The consul saw in a flash the full military significance of this logic, and could not repress a smile. At which Captain Christian dropped easily into a chair beside him, and as easily into broken German English: "Und," he went on, "dees town dees Schlachtstadt is fine town, eh? Fine womens? Goot men? Und peer and sausage? Blenty to eat and trink, eh? Und you und te poys haf a gay times?"
He could hear the rebel Captain talking to his men, and every moment the accents of the voice became more familiar. "Don't vaste your shods," he was saying. "Don'd vire undil you sees somedings to shood ad, unt den vire to hid. See how many shods you haf alretty vired mitout doing no goot. You must dink dat ammunition's as blenty as vater in de Southern Confederacy.
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