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Simon repeated, in accents of incredulity. "Me savvy 'Clyde. Him big man-horse hyas skookum man-horse. Him mammook plow, mammook haul wagon!" "You hyas damfool Injun!" said his host politely. "Missee Clyde Chlistian gal's name, catchum in Chlistian Bible; all same Swede Annie, all same Spokane Sue, all same Po'tland Lily." Simon digested this information with preternatural gravity.
This was on Friday and a fair wind was blowing, but our crew, who loved dearly to rest and eat in these big hospitable houses, all said that Monday would be hyas klosh for the starting-day. I insisted, however, on starting Saturday morning, and succeeded in getting away from our friends at ten o'clock.
My tum-tum is white, I try to do right: All are welcome to come To my hearth and my home. So call in and see me, white, red or black man: I'm de-late hyas of the Kootznahoo quan. Need I add that tum-tum in the Chinook jargon signifies the soul! Joseph merely announced that he was clean-souled; also de-late hyas that is, above reproach.
I'm getting compliments from everybody to-night. I'm really flattered. I want to hear some more." "Better not," he advised apprehensively. "But I want to." "Ya-as," Simon drawled again. "Hyas kloshe tenas klootchman ah-ha. What name you callum?" "Missee Clyde Bullaby," Feng replied, making a manful attempt at Clyde's surname, which was quite beyond his lingual attainments. "Clyde!"
He surveyed the five-dollar bill and chuckled. "Tyee man hyas damfool!" said he. He cast a shrewd eye at the sun, which stood near the meridian. "Sitkum sun!" he announced. "Noon and that means you're hungry," said Sandy. "I never saw you when you weren't. Go on up to the house, and say I sent you. Muckamuck mika sick yakwahtin. Eat till your belly goes back on you, if you want to."
Hyas delate salmon. "At last I felt the swell of the open, and she leaned to uncover my face once more. 'The steamer is in sight, she said, and I raised my head again and saw the boat, a small moving blot with a trailer of smoke, far up the sapphire sea. Then I turned on my elbow and looked back.
It flashed over me that he was one of the two Indians who had tracked me to the Duckabush; the taller one who had tried to drink at the rill; then he made his throw and at the same instant the girl's hat fell again on my face. I heard her call her pleasant 'Clahowya! and she added, rowing on evenly: 'Hyas delate salmon. The next moment his answer rang astern: 'Clahowya! Clahowya!
"How much did this cost?" said one, prying askew his three-tined fork. "How much did you cost yourself?" said another to Drake. "What, our kid boss? Two bits, I guess." "Hyas markook. Too dear!"
White man ask questions!" this last contemptuously, at which Fanny laughed, as asking questions was one of her reserved rights. "You must be an old man, since these waters are named after you," suggested I. "Who was the first white man you remember seeing?" "Hyas tyee, Cappen Cook. Big ship big guns!" answered Nittinat, warming with the recollection.
Meaning that Sandy had gone in the direction of the hills, as had McHale. "Why him klatawa?" Simon asked. Casey explained, and Simon listened gravely. His receptiveness was enormous. Information dropped into him as into a bottomless pit, vanishing without splash. "Sandy hyas young fool," he commented. "Me tell him mamook huyhuy moccasin. S'pose moccasin stop, ikt man findum, then heltopay.
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