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"Een-dick," continued the little Indian, "teen-dick, teddery-dick, peddery-dick, bumpin, een-bumpin, teen-bumpin, teddery-bumpin, peddery-bumpin, jiggets." "Hollo!" cried Grasshopper; "that's twenty; jiggets is twenty;" and he rolled over on the ground, laughing as if he had made a great discovery.
"Well," replied Horace, "they aren't mine." "O, yes. Ugh! you've got 'em. Melon-water good! Me have melon-waters, me give you moc-suns." "I'll ask my grandpa, Wampum." Hereupon the crafty little Indian shook his head. "You ask ole man, me no give you moc-suns! Me no want een me want bimp bumpin jiggets." Horace's stout little heart wavered for a moment. He fancied moccasins very much.
One curious point is brought out here in the phrase "boiled jiggets of mutton," which shews that the French gigot for a leg of mutton was formerly in use here. Like many other Gallicisms, it lingered in Scotland down to our own time.
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