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The officer remarked that "such impudence was refreshing;" but the experienced interpreter translated freely. "He says: 'Why you don't want?" said the interpreter. The old slave-trader answered at some length. "He says," said the interpreter, again turning to the officer, "the marass is a too unhealth' for peopl' to live." "But we expect to drain his old marsh; it's not going to be a marsh."
If a good simplification is ever effected, it will be by cutting Gordian knots, and you all of you seem absolutely incapable of anything of the kind. I don't expect anyhow to make much out of a man who will spell "peepl" "peopl". Imagine all this said with a grin, not a frown!! You wil never get back to "the old sounds" of the vowels, in God's world.
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