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"Commong ça va?" inquired Heinie, evidently mortified at his situation and condition, but putting on the careless front of a gunman in a strange ward. Pick-em-up Joe added jauntily: "Well, Doc, what’s the good word?" "France," I replied, smiling; "Do you know a better word?" "Yes," he said, "Noo York. Say, what’s your little graft over here, Doc?"
He could speak French, too, Miss Flouncy found, who was studying it under Mademoiselle Grande fille-de-chambre de confiance; for when she said to him, "Polly voo Fransy, Munseer Jeames?" he replied readily, "We, Mademaselle, j'ay passay boco de tong a Parry. Commong voo potty voo?"
"'Commong, sais he, 'how is dat? He can't get up, he can't back out, and he can't drink, and he is blacked and blued in the face, and most choked with the weight. "'What country was you man of? said he, for he spoke very good for a Frenchman.
"'Commong, sais he, 'how is dat? He can't get up, he can't back out, and he can't drink, and he is blacked and blued in the face, and most choked with the weight. "'What country was you man of? said he, for he spoke very good for a Frenchman.
The amount of their lingo that kid taught me 'We, we' and 'Bong swot' and 'Commong voo potty we' and all and I taught him English. You should have heard that nipper say ''Arf a mo', old un! It was a treat. "Then one day we got surprised. There was about a dozen of us in the village, and two or three hundred Germans came down on us early one morning. They got us; no help for 'it.
He speaks of his uncle, the head of that office. "Who IS the head of that offis? Palmerston." "The nephew of Palmerston!" said Jools, almost in a fit. "Lor Yardham pretends not to speak French," the other went on. "He pretends he can only say wee and commong porty voo. Shallow humbug! I have marked him during our conversations.
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