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Hey, Bob, show them where you want your bees. Better take them right over to the orchard and set them up where you intend to keep them this summer." "I've got a place already fixed for them," he replied. Then as Tony came near he called, "Do you understand how to talk to Italian bees, Tony?" "Yes, I know-a da bees and-a da bees know-a me no-a sting," said Tony.
"No-a," said the farmer, deliberately, as his fat horses instinctively stood stock still; "didn't pass nobody." "Have you come far?" "A good ways." "You would have met a coach, if it had passed here an hour ago?" "I guess I would," said the man. "This road leads straight across the country." "Where does the other road at the fork go?" "To the patroon village.
"Boys have no rights in the Navy, or wrongs either if they behave themselves properly," observed the doctor, giving my joker a `snop' for his bumptiousness. "What's your name?" "Reeks," replied `Ugly, a bit abashed. "My name be Moses Reeks, zur." "Leeks?" "No-a, zur, Reeks. We spells it with a `har, double `he, and a `k' and a `hess, zur."
"Oh, you're one of the plumber's men?" asked Bob, thinking perhaps his aunt might have asked to have some men sent out to work on the new cellar under the washroom where the hot-water heater was to go. "No, I no-a da plumb. I-a da mase and-a da carpendero." "Oh, you want a job?" asked Bob, catching his meaning. "Yes-a, da job, but no-a work-a da field.
"I mean, have you ever been over the masthead?" "No-a," said `Ugly, staring sheepishly at him; and then, as he followed his questioner's eye, on it glancing up aloft, he added, "Doos yer mean oop there, zur?" "Aye." "No-a, zur." "Then, you'll have to go up now," said the instructor, in a tone that showed he intended to be obeyed. "Lads, attention!"
Barton, foreseeing that a prolongation of this episode would not be to edification, said 'Silence! in his severest tones. 'Let me hear no abuse. Your boy is not likely to behave well, if you set him the example of being saucy. Then stooping down to Master Fodge, and taking him by the shoulder, 'Do you like being beaten? 'No-a. 'Then what a silly boy you are to be naughty.
We got-a no-a da kids, and she like-a da country, like-a da me." "That's a fine idea," said the banker, turning around quickly. "Where is she now, Tony?" "She in Pittsburgh, wid her brud." "Send for her right away, Tony," said the banker. "All right, Mr. White, but I have no-a da mon." "Oh, that's so, Tony. Well, we'll take care of that."
"I'm glad I've met you," she said, in her clear dulcet voice, "for you can tell me where I am. I want to get to Sleepy Hollow, Dr. Maybright's place am I far away?" "Two miles, as the crow flies," responded the man. "But I can't go as the crow flies. What is the best way to walk? Can't you show me?" "No-a. I be sleepy. Have you got a coin about you, Miss?" "Money? No. I left my purse at home.
"Oh," he said, shrugging his shoulders, "there no-a da mon in-a da Italia and too-a much da hard work." So asking questions and listening to Tony's answers the three reached the house, where Bob quickly explained the matter to his aunt. She came out and asked Tony to stay and have dinner with them.
"What's the price?" they heard the young man ask. They did not catch the reply, but he went on with his questions: "Will he bite? Is he quite tame? Is there any danger at all?" "No-a bite," returned the driver; "good camel," and as he spoke he reached for the girl, who shrank back a little. But he quickly lifted her to the saddle and showed her how to hold on.
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