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To Ned's question, the Indian nodded emphatically and replied, Dick never could resist the temptation to play with wild animals and he put out his hand to the wild-cat, saying: "If that Injun can tame that beast, I can." "That Injun understands you, just as well as I do. He only pretends he doesn't so as to make us try to talk his confounded lingo."
The Apache told him, too, thou see'st thou hast not played the listening game alone, for, hiding behind the fo'castle door myself, I heard him say it, that here lay that famous island, San how is't they call it? San Catlina I know not how 'tis spoken, some Spanish lingo not fit for English tongues!
Those fellers trailing us this afternoon don't make it look as if they or the man they're workin' for could have got hold of her already and there's a chance that she just wandered off, like, on her own hook. I'll let you know the minute I've got a line on her. Wish I spoke her lingo!"
"Why, your honour," quoth a senior of the village, "I believe the tipstaves be come to take the foreigner for not paying his rent; and he does not understand our English liberty like, and has drawn his sword, and swears, in his outlandish lingo, he will not be made prisoner alive." I required no further inducement to make me enter the house.
For a language that has only a few words like shauri, backsheesh, apana, and chukula the native lingo is a most elastic one. There were two or three things that we had come to Mount Elgon for and about which we desired information. The first was "elephants," and we found, after hours of talk, that there was none in the vicinity.
"Deerfoot dog coward shoot Injin no more." Wish-o-wa-tum started a reply in English, but the difficulty was such that he slid back into his own lingo. Consequently, the purport of what he said was lost upon the youths. Jack Carleton, however, was quick enough to suspect the meaning, of the proceeding which troubled him so much at first.
"I wonder whether it is that they think we don't understand their lingo, or that they don't understand ours; I'll just try them, though." Whereon in a half whisper he addressed the person sitting next to him, who bowed and salaamed very politely in return, but made no reply. "What I axes you, mounseer, is, whether you feels comfortable after your dinner," continued Jack, in a loud whisper.
"All right!" shouted Peter; and the mahout winced again as he drew his ankus from where he had tucked it in the folds of his sarong, as if to signify that he was ready to perform any duties his masters wished. "That's done it, Mister Archie," said Peter. "One can't understand everybody's lingo, but good, loud English goes a long way if you put plenty of powder behind it. You see now.
He had once heard sailors from Sweden talking, and the chatter sounded like their lingo. Then there was Boots, the errand boy, who believed that it was the Devil; but, whatever or whoever it was, he was ready to bet a week's wages that its lingo was all in French.
'Twas full five-and-twenty years since he had Run from the King of Great Britain's service; and although his Blue Eyes and enormous Red Whiskers still gave him somewhat of a Saxon appearance, he had very nearly forgotten his Mother Tongue, and only retained English enough to enable him to mingle a few Billingsgate Oaths with his barbarous Levantine Lingo.
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