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A party of American bluejackets gun crews were at another table. They heard us speak English, whereat one of them called over: "Say, you guys comprong English? Wee, wee? Then you oughter been where we were yesterday. Yuh'd seen something. Fighting U-boats we were. Comprong? U-boats wee, wee, U-boats. Thirty-six of 'em came after us an' we sunk twelve. Whaddyer know about that?"
Oh, yes, I know you don't know what I'm talkin' about, an' perhaps it's jest as well you don't, Miss Dorothy. I hadn't oughter said it, anyhow. Well, I s'pose I've got to go write that letter to Keith now. Seein' as how you've come I can't put it off no longer. Goodness only knows, though, what I'm goin' to say," she sighed, as her visitor nodded back a wistful- eyed good-bye.
I've heard all my life you Cath'lics don't take as much stock in the Scripters as you'd oughter, but this thing o'callin' a wurrum Adam named plain Caterpillar a a what'd you say the dum beast's name was? My sufferin' Savior! is jest about the wust dern foolishness yet!
"De nex' mawnin' he overslep' hisse'f, en got inter mo' trouble. Atter breakfus', Mars' Dugal' sont 'im ober ter Mars' Marrabo Utley's fer ter borry a monkey wrench. He oughter be'n back in ha'f a' hour, but he come pokin' home 'bout dinner-time wid a screw-driver stidder a monkey wrench. Mars' Dugal' sont ernudder nigger back wid de screw-driver, en Hannibal did n' git no dinner.
Robert wants to know why I didn't let 'em know I was goin' all the way to Washington after them stamps. "Chee!" says I, "but you're gettin' restless! Maybe you think I oughter travel by pneumatic tube? Huh!" There's nothin' wins out surer in this town of New York than puttin' up a good front.
If I haven't told you anything before, it's because I didn't think you oughter know. If I didn't trust the child to YOU, it's because I didn't think you could go shashaying about with a child that was three years old when I" he stopped and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand "made an honest woman of you I think that's what they call it."
You made a mistake, Gideon, in plantin' us all together beside the gate, as if that was the only possible point of attack. Say, we oughter been distributed in pickets, same as Buckskin Jack allus recommended." "We ain't none of us wounded," reflected Gideon, wiping a streak of blood from his face. "Leastways, not wounded serious.
Huggins, who is allers frontin' up as one who possesses public sperit, tries to look plumb dignified about it, an' remarks to Dave Tutt in the New York Store as how he thinks we oughter throw in around an' build a monument to Locoed Charlie. Dave allows that, while he's with Huggins in them projecks, he wants to add a monument to the ants.
My wife and I were speaking about it only the other day. Seems as if she'd oughter be round with other children now, and learning what they do. Mis Nazro would be real pleased to have her stop with us a spell, and go to school with our gals. What do you say?" He spoke very heartily, but looked doubtfully at the old man, as if hardly expecting a favourable answer.
But I thought that you changed that banana for a peach, and ate the peach?" "I did." "Then, why wasn't that banana Joe's? you had taken his peach." "He hadn't oughter hooked took it out o' my bucket." "No, and you ought not to have put it into your bucket." "He hooked took what warn't his." "You kept what wasn't yours.
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