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"Otto," said Jack, springing to his feet like a refreshed giant, "we must hunt again for the horse." "Dot ishn't vot I don't dinks too dot ish I does dinks so." "And you must now try to straighten out your English, so that Deerfoot and I may not be ashamed of you." Otto nodded his head by way of assent, while he thought hard about the proper manner of expressing himself.
"Well," said his friend, reasonably, "ishn't that the big idea? Wouldn' you razzer drink yourself to death'n die of thirst?" They were making for the door now in a zigzag course, and when they passed Honor, Jimsy stayed their progress. He held out his hand and spoke to her, but he did not meet her eyes. "Gimme ring," he said, crossly. "What do you mean?" said Honor.
Then he raised his head, and called in a whisper to Miss Prescott: "I say dere." "Well! what is it?" she responded, rising. "You ishn't ashleep bees you?" "No, I am ready." "Well, I guesses it bees purty near times." "Are they all sound asleep your Lily and children?" "Yaw, dey's won't wake if you pound 'em."
"Dot ish too bad," he said to himself, "but ishn't I glad dot Jack didn't come up and sees me, for he vould laugh till he went dead mine gracious!" It seemed indeed as if the youth had arrived in a strange latitude, for while he remained communing with himself, he caught the unmistakable odor of tobacco-smoke in the air.
"Well, den, I isht no badroon, for I don't own no land at all, not even mine own; and I ishn't petter asht no poty at all." "Yes, you be; you've only to think so, and you'll be the greatest gentleman of 'em all." "Well, den, I will dry and dink so, and be petter asht de greatest shentlemans of dem all.
"It is the most wonderful experience of which I have ever heard. I thought my escape from the Sauks was remarkable, and so it was, but it can't compare with yours. I never knew of the Indians being fooled in that manner; but show me where you have spent the last day or two." "It ishn't as fine as your cabin dot is home in Martinsville, but it ish de best dot I can find."
"How funny he talks," whispered Grace to Lulu; "I can hardly understand him." "It's because he's Dutch," returned Lulu, in the same low tone. "But I can tell almost all he says. His son's name must be Jakey; the short for Jacob." "What is your name?" asked Max. "Hencle Shon Hencle. I dinks you all pees come to see Miss Stanhope pe von huntred years olt; ishn't you?" "Yes," said Rosie.
No wonder all te braves of te Shawnee tribe should love her, and dat Hans Vanderbum gots her at last. Jis' look at dat foot! long and flat like a board, and she's de same shape all de way down from her head to her heels. Ishn't dat breakfast ready, my dear wife?"
It was thickly wooded, but a prodigious rock near the crest resembled a spot that had been burned clear. "Helloa!" suddenly called out Jack Carleton, while gazing in the direction, "there's someone on that rock." "I guess it ish a crow or bear no, it ishn't." "My gracious! it's Deerfoot." A moment's scrutiny proved that the individual, beyond all question was an Indian.
"You're a trump!" said the burglar. "Well," exclaimed the clerk, with a tremendous assumption of winking-dignity, "ishn't zhat zactly what I was goin' to shay, if you'd on'y listen. `What'll you 'ave to drink! jus' so. Now, if you want to argue it out properly, you'll "
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