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"So far so good. But all those people had heard a prophecy of Napoleon, under the name of Kebir Bonaberdis; a word which in our lingo means, 'The Sultan fires a shot, and they feared him like the devil.
What wid Turks an' Moors an' Jews, an' white slaves of every lingo under the sun, I can't rightly make out to remimber which it is Europe, Asia, Afriky, or Ameriky that I'm livin' in! Never mind, yer all right wid that blissid cownsl at yer back, an' this purty little thing in yer pokit." He became silent, and seemed a little perplexed at this point, looking about as if in search of something.
At first they thought that I was a black man, for I had forgotten to rub the black off my face, and afterwards had more difficulty in getting that white than any other part of me. I could very easily talk with them, as I had learned to speak the lingo in very common use along the coast in those parts. "The dhow was, as I expected, a slaver.
Ils sont they are. "Why, it's easy enough," thought Tom, "I could pick it up, and then when I go over to France I shall be able to speak their lingo." "Where have you been lately, Tom?" asked Alec McPhail when he met him some time later. "I have been to all the public-houses where we used to meet and have not set my eyes on you." "Nay," replied Tom, "I have been to the Y.M.C.A."
"Well, Benteen," he asked, twirling his moustache, and staring after them, "what was it the Dons said? Peste! I could not make out a word of their lingo, except when the fellows swore." I repeated to him the conversation, and he burst into a hearty laugh. "Indeed, a sweet-scented Frenchman, that Capuchin priest," he said carelessly. "I wonder what has so set the drunken fool against me?"
"They was that kind between 'era and that nice way with it I didn't know whether I was a-standing on my head or my heels. And then the count he says something to Miss Rossano in his own lingo language, I should ha' said, sir, begging your pardon and Miss Rossano she answers him back again, and they get a-talking till there was tears in both their eyes, sir.
He was quickly made a sort of ship's pet and plaything, receiving new garments from his admirers, and the high sounding name, as I have already mentioned, of Telemaque, which in slave lingo was subsequently metamorphosed into Denmark. The lad found himself in sudden favor, and lifted above his companions in bondage by the brief and idle regard of that ship's company.
"Can they speak English?" "A little," answered Abe Abercrombie. "I can talk some of their lingo, too. Maybe I'd better see what they want." "I guess it would be a good plan," suggested Tom, and, accordingly the old miner stepped forward. The Indian came on, until Abe motioned for him to halt. "I reckon that's as far as it'll be healthy for you t' come," spoke Abe, grimly.
"I'm going where I can live a busy, useful life not a Butterfly existence, with nothing to occupy my mind but art and hifalutin lingo! I can't express myself with long candles and Oriental junk! I'm going oh, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm taking the next train out of Butterfly Thenter!" "Warble haven't I treated you right? Haven't you had enough to eat?
They were after me once and a man makes the best time he can then. It was a fine race and I won it, and after that they called me, 'The man that goes like Running Water. The voyageurs and coureurs des bois put it into their lingo and it stuck." "But your real name?" she asked, the pail forgotten. "Just a common French one, Duchesney, Napoleon Duchesney, if you want to know both ends of it.
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