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The dog's barking gave place to terrified whinings, which in turn were suddenly quenched to a choking murmur. "Gome in, Sharlie, kvick!" "You got him?" queried Charlie, opening the door cautiously. "Did he bite you?" "Na, yust ma mitten. Gat a sack or someding da die him oop in."
Several went after him, and he was caught in the middle of an adjoining cornfield, where a rough-and-tumble scuffle ensued, with poor Hans at the bottom of the heap. "Hi, git off, kvick!" he gasped. "Dis ton't been no footsball game nohow! Git off, somebody, und dake dot knee mine mouth out of!" "Are you warm, now, Hansy!" asked Tom.
Und you vosn't eaten up alretty kvick!" "None of the animals troubled us, but the three-horned jibberjacker. He came into our house one night, crawled upstairs, and began to swallow Sam alive." "You ton't tole me!" "Yes, I do tell you. He had Sam in his mouth, and had swallowed him as far as his waist, when Sam began to kick on the floor with his feet."
Ged oud! Tam you, ged oud kvick!" Schmitz caught up a bottle in quick rage, and dashed it at Professor Thunder. The Professor pursued his investigations no further.
"I dink dot boetry vos make me tizzy already," came from Hans, as he sat down on a nearby chair, his face growing suddenly pale. "Hullo, Hans is sick!" cried Tom. "Hans, I thought you had better sea legs than that." "I vosn't sick at all, Dom, only vell, der ship looks like be vos going to dake a summersaults already kvick!" "You're seasick," said Sam. "Better go to your stateroom and lie down."
"I think it was a little salty," came from Fred Garrison. "Mine cracious me! Of dot's so I vos poisoned, sure. Run for der toctor kvick!" "Here, eat some jam, Hans. That will counteract the effect of the poison," said Tom, and handed over a small dish with jam in it, over which he had just sprinkled the pepper with an exceedingly liberal hand.
Anxious to do anything that would stop him from being poisoned, the German boy clutched the dish and took a large spoonful of the jam. But as he gulped it, he gave a gasp, and the tears started down his cheeks. "Du meine zeit!" he bawled. "I vos purnt up alife by mine mouth alretty! Dake it avay kvick!" And jumping up from the table he began to dance around madly. "It's a serious case," said Tom.
It's one of dem Rover boys!" he cried, dropping into his old-time manner of speech. "Wot are you doin' here?" "You know dot young feller?" demanded the man who had been mentioned as Dutch Jake. "Yes, I do, and he's up to no good here," replied Buddy Girk. "Den maybe I best kick him owit kvick, hey?" "Yes no wait a minute." Girk turned to Arnold Baxter.
"Be thankful that it wasn't something worse, Hans," said Sam. "What would you do if you woke up and saw a big black bear standing beside your cot"? "I dink I cofer mine head kvick, Sammy." "But the bear might chew the cover up." "Den I vos rund for mine life und holler like sixty!" "Well, you want to keep your eyes open for bears," added Sam, thinking he scented fun ahead.
"Dot examinations vos dickle me alretty," said Hans. "Vot I don't know apoud dem military tictacs you don't know, ain't it. I vill pe by der top of der class so kvick as neffer vos, you pet yourself!" And he nodded his head as if he meant every word of it. Dick Rover said but little on the subject, but he meant to win if he possibly could, and so did Tom.
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