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'Why, my lady, answered Martha, 'the master often calls her the Dutch hag, and other names you would not like to hear, and I am sure she is neither English nor Irish; for, whenever they talk together, they speak some queer foreign lingo, and fast enough, I'll be bound.
By morning he felt much better, hungry, and prepared in his mind for striking a bargain with one of the sailors for clothes. He could make out their lingo soon, he guessed, and then he would get a suit of clothes and fare on deck. Suddenly he grasped his waist, struck with an unpleasant thought; his money-belt was gone! He was wearing a sailor's blue flannel shirt and nothing else.
Never, we suspect, by the assistance of Theosophists. The oriental lingo is part of the fascination to those who like to look profound on a small stock of learning. Besides, it imposes on the open-mouthed; and, if the Hindu terminology were translated into vernacular English, they would probably exclaim, "Good God! there's nothing in it." It is all very well for Mrs.
I know little or nothing of my duty as a seaman, nor was it required in the station I was in, so I never learnt, although I was four years on board; all I learnt was the lingo and slang and that you must contrive to learn from me.
Choate's manuscript plans for daily study, in these words, "faciundo ad munus nuper impositum." Now it must really in justice be said that to write a biography of Mr. Choate in such a lingo as this is an insult to the subject. We believe we are fair with Mr. Parker's style.
'This ain't November. That ain't no guy. It's a ballet lady, that's what it is. 'Not it it's a bloomin' looney, I tell you. Then came a clear voice that they knew. 'Retire, slaves! it said. 'What's she a saying of? cried a dozen voices. 'Some blamed foreign lingo, one voice replied. The children rushed to the door. A crowd was on the road and pavement.
"I can't tell all we did for the next six months, because Dravot did a lot I couldn't see the hang of, and he learned their lingo in a way I never could. My work was to help the people plough, and now and again go out with some of the Army and see what the other villages were doing, and make 'em throw rope-bridges across the ravines which cut up the country horrid.
The ruler came down with a crash, and aroused the sleeper. Longears also started erect, looked around, and then laid down again. "Ah!" murmured Verty, who woke like a bird upon the boughs, "what was that, ma mere?" "There's his outlandish lingo Delaware or Shawnee, I have no doubt!" said Mr. Roundjacket. Verty rose erect. "Was I asleep? he said, smiling. "I think you were."
But the poor Indian, who knew no Greek, poor old savage, lament for him with a scholarly eheu! called this shiner of the sea, in his own barbarous lingo, Scuppaug.
'What's all that lingo, Mr. M'Intyre? called out Jim, all good-natured again. 'Is it French or Queensland blacks' yabber? Blest if I understand a word of it. But I didn't want to be nasty, only I am regular shook on this old moke, I believe, and he's as square as Mr. Falkland's dogcart horse. 'Maybe ye bocht him fair eneugh. I'll no deny you.
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