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Nein, nein, I 'll meddle with her no more; she's a witch of the fiend, a real deyvil's kind, but that's her affair. Donner and wetter! I'll neither make nor meddle; that's her work. But for the rest why, if I thought the trade would not suffer, I would soon rid you of the younker, if you send me word when he's under embargo.
"Not often, but to-night. He wants to practise something for the festival with no one to hear," he added significantly. The boy looked at him pleadingly. His hand strayed to his pockets. They brought back two coppers, the only wealth he possessed. The old man looked at him kindly and shook his head. "Nein," he said. "It is not for the money I shall do it.
A man, at such a crisis, would be what Wynn called a 'sportsman'; would leave everything to fetch help, and would certainly bring It into the house. Now a woman's business was to make a happy home for for a husband and children. Failing these it was not a thing one should allow one's mind to dwell upon but 'Stop it! Mary cried once more across the shadows. 'Nein, I tell you!
"When I think of that ignorant beast of a sergeant keeping me out there," he concluded disgustedly, "mumbling and spluttering over his confounded 'yaw, yaw' and 'nein, nein, trying to scrape up odd German words which I probably got all wrong to make him understand, and him all the time quite well able to speak good enough English that's what beats me why couldn't he say he spoke English?"
Mother says so, Tom stammered out, while Jerry, who had been looking intently, first at one boy, and then at the other, called out in her own language: 'Nein, nein, nein, and struck her hand toward Tom. 'What does she mean by her "Nine, nine, nine," he asked of Miss Howard, who replied that she thought it was the German for 'No, no, no, and that the child probably did not approve of him.
"Goot rost benuts ish incite, nein sents a quoort. Shtep in unt py." The English translation followed: "Good roost peanuts is inside, nine cents a quart. Step in and by." Bessie and I were inwardly amused, but did not let it appear to the admiring children. Allie, however, had her own misgivings as to the absolute correctness of the sign, and said, doubtfully,
"I dink me you vos left der Hall for goot, yah!" "Hans Mueller!" came from Sam. "Then you are going back, too? I thought you had scarlet fever?" "Not much I ain't," said the German youth. "I vos eat too much of dem puckveat cakes alretty, und dot makes mine face preak owid, put I ain't got no scarlet fefers, nein! How you vos alretty annahow?" And he shook hands as Larry had done.
"Dey dond't like de hard vork, Cabtin. . . . Dey dond't like it but ve takes der Coop, all de same! Dey pulls goot und strong, oder" he rasped a short sentence in rapid Low German "Shermans dond't be beat by no durn lime-juicer, nein!" Old Burke grinned. "Cocky as ever, Captain Schenke! Bedad now, since ye had the luck of ye're last passage there's no limit to ye!" "Luck! Luck!
"Now, sit down, Herr Benson, and I will tell you what a very handsome sum of money, and what excellent wages, the German government will pay you to enter our imperial naval service." "How much money is there in Germany?" interrupted the submarine boy, thoughtfully. "How much, in all Germany?" demanded the Professor. "Nein! How should I know?"
'Nein, nein; the kinchin got about the old man's heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to India; I believe he would have packed him back here, but his nephew told him it would do up the free trade for many a day if the youngster got back to Scotland. 'Do you think the younker knows much of his own origin now?
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