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It's always `Look you, or `Teclare to cootness, and it does sound so stupid." "Not it, my lad," said Morgan, proudly. "It's that which shows I belong to the Ancient British." "Nonsense! You're a Welshman." "Ah, you call me so, my lad, but I belong to the genuwyne old British stock. You ask the captain if I don't.
"Oh, 'teed tat's ferry hard; surely to cootness very hard indeet. But she wull no pe thinkin' aaltogether tat she wull pe driven joost like a muckle prute beast either. Her nainsel' wull mebbes hef a wheen freends tat could gie her help if she was wantin't. Could ye told me if there wud pe ony o' them tat wad pe seem' yer honour comin' in here?" "Not one of your friends, my mannie.
"I teclare to cootness, sir," began Morgan, in a high-pitched Welsh fashion; but he checked himself and smiled. "There, sir, don't you talk like that. Wilderness? Why, it's a pleasure to do a bit of gardening here. See what rich deep soil it is, and how the things rush up into growth." "Very poor consolation for your wife, Morgan," said my father, dryly.
On receiving the ball Hans made another flourishing motion, shut his eyes, and threw the sphere with great force straight at the ground in front of him. "Mine cootness!" he gasped. "I vill haf to look oudt for dot drop. It vos a corker." "Better start off with a straight ball," advised Hodge. "Give these youngsters a show. They can't hit your curves, Hans."
He was determined to score if possible. As he came up from second he saw Hans Dunnerwurst dancing like a clown and furiously waving his arms, while he yelled: "Ephie, you vos a tandy! Ephie, you vos a peach! Ephie, I luf you! Dot score vill git you, und don'd nobody forgit him! Mine cootness, dot vos der most peautiful home run you efer saw in my life!"
"There, it's of no use for you to keep looking at me like that, Master George; I know what you are thinking about." "Do you?" "Yes, I just do; and I teclare to cootness, I feel as if it would have been right. The only thing against it that I can see is, that I was rather in too great a hurry." "But it was utter madness," I said, with a shudder.
Hans' effort at suave politeness as he bowed with his hand over his heart was most laughable. "Mine cootness! vos dot Inza Purrage?" he gurgled. "I used to think she vos der most peautiful girl vot efer seen me, but, so hellup me sour krout, she vos sixdeen times prettier-lookin' than efer!" "You're the same old flatterer, Hans," said Inza; "but you mustn't try to flirt with me now.
The marquis took the proffered hand kindly: "I have come to apologise," he said. "Not one vord more, my lort, I peg," interrupted Duncan. "My lort is come, out of his cootness, to pring her a creat kift; for he'll pe hearing of ta sad accident which pefell her poor pipes one efening lately. Tey was ferry old, my lort, and easily hurt."
At my words Morgan made a bound, and then began to move past a tree. But he stopped short, and returned to my side, looking wildly round the while. "See 'em see any of 'em?" he whispered. "No; but suppose they have stolen upon us again as they did before!" "Yah! What do you mean by frightening a man? I teclare to cootness it's too bad of you, Master George."
"Vot vos dot?" gasped Hans Dunnerwurst. "You don'd pelief me! Dit ten thousand dollars pet you, Ephie? Mine cootness cracious sakes alife! You vos a spordt!" "I'm a tarnal fool!" mumbled Gallup. "I know it." "Then you did make a bet, Ephraim?" said Frank, unable to repress his feeling of dismay. "Yes, I done it! I hope the whole blamed bunch will kick me!
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