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"Talk ist cheap," retorted Herr Schimmelpodt, with a wink, "mid dot's all I haf to bay for dot funeral. Dick Bresgott ain't fool enough yet to preak der only neck he has." At this a jolly laugh went around, relieving the tension a bit, for there were many in the crowd who had begun to feel mighty serious as soon as they realized that Dick was in earnest.
Vat gan it concern you whether I have one votdermans or two votd-ermans whether I bull out mine burce for to pay von shilling or two? Diavolo! I gannot go here, or I gannot go dere, but some one shall send it to some newsbaber, as how Misder Chorge Vreder-ick Handel did go somedimes last week in a votderman's wherry, to preak his fastd wid Misder Zac.
"Tat you haf tone it yourself, ten, Malcolm? My prave poy!" "No, daddy; I took my licks like a man, for I deserved them." "Deserfed to pe peaten, Malcolm to pe peaten like a tog? Ton't tell her tat! Ton't preak her heart, my poy." "It wasna that muckle, daddy. I only telled him auld Horny was at 's lug." "And she'll make no toubt it was true," cried Duncan, emerging sudden from his despondency.
"Make quick, blease!" wailed the unhappy scout, who was growing dizzy with all this dangling and turning around. "I hears me der cloth gifing away; or else dot dree, it pe going to preak py der roots. Hurry oop! Get a moof on you, somepody. Subbose I want to make some squash pie down on der rocks?"
A sudden vague terror seized her; she left McTeague and ran down the hall and caught her mother around the neck. "I don't WANT you to go," she whispered in her mother's ear, sobbing. "Oh, mamma, I I'm 'fraid." "Ach, Trina, you preak my heart. Don't gry, poor leetle girl." She rocked Trina in her arms as though she were a child again.
"This locoed darn' fool thinks he can walk on them eggs an' not mash 'em!" the Ramblin' Kid laughed again. "He wants to bet me four-bits he can " "Walk on them eggs and not preak them?" Leon exclaimed disdainfully. "You ought to lock him up! He iss crazy!" "By gosh," Skinny argued, "you don't realize how light-footed I am I can jump on them, I tell you, and I got money to back it up!"
Oh! mon cher Monsieur Deeck! mon Dieu! que faites vous! Donner und blitzen, Richart! exclaimed the veteran German, looking over the side of the sleigh with unusual emotion, put you will preak ter sleigh and kilt ter horses! Good Mr. Jones, said the clergyman, be prudent, good sir be careful,
Zen I am insane and my very lofe make me vorse. Ah, Corinne, if you see my heart, you vould not speak so cold. If I could preak zis iron door zat bar me from you and draw you close to me, Corinne, vere you could feel ze quick beat zat say, 'lofe! lofe! lofe! if I could take your hand and kees " "Tulitz!" "My sveetheart!" "Hush, please, Tulitz. Don't say those things now. I can't stand them.
Dey vill preak dare little necks. Joost see how dey run! But de tog is de pest runner of dem poys, egsept de vootchuck." Mr. Hamburger did not run. Nobody had ever seen him do any such thing as that. But he walked on across the pasture-lot, toward the deep ravine that cut through the side of the hill to the valley.
Ve bane gone to maig dat time, als' ve preak somedings, ja!" and he sent the light engine spinning down the yards to a quickstep of forty miles an hour.
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