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He did not rise, he vouchsafed them no greeting of any description, he did not even look at them a brilliant sample of the victorious military cad. At last after some moments waiting he said: "Vat do you vant?" The Count acted as spokesman. "We wish to leave, Monsieur." "No." "May I take the liberty of asking the reason for this refusal?" "Pecause I do not shoose."
So for two or three pages he goes on telling of the cruel suffering and of the various substitutes for nourishing food, such as bark ground and boiled; bones that had lain about the camp, picked clean by dogs and crows, now carefully gathered and boiled; then "the skins that weare reserved to make us shoose, cloath, and stokins," and at last even the skins of the tents that covered them.
They have very handsome shoose laced very thick all over with a peece sowen att the side of the heele, which was of a haire of Buff, which trailed above halfe a foot upon the earth, or rather on the snow. They had swords and knives of a foot and a halfe long, and hattchetts very ingeniously done, and clubbs of wood made like backswords; some made of a round head that I admired it.
He say orful tings ter marse cap'n who didin't gib back a inch en sez, sez he, 'I challing you. Shoose yo' weapons en place ob meetin" Dem he berry words. Den yo' cousin shose 'volvers en de far side ob de grobe up dar en said 'we fight ter de deth. Deth useter seem orful, Miss Lou, but sech a heap ob mens die dat ef Mad Whately des set on dyin', w'y not let 'im hab he way?
Uf I shoose mein second, I dakes Vrankie Merrivell alretty!" For all that he had serious work on hand, Frank was ready for a frolic, and he instantly said: "I will carry your challenge, Hans. You may depend on me." "All righd, Vrankie, my poy; led her go." "You wish me to hunt up Ephraim Gallup, and demand an apology or a fight?" "Yaw." "And you really mean it?" "Yaw."
So putt all that together halfe foot within grounde, and so makes a fire uppon it, We covered all that very well with earth, soe seeling the heat, and boyled them againe and gave more froth then before; in the next place, the skins that weare reserved to make us shoose, cloath, and stokins, yea, most of the skins of our cottages, the castors' skins, where the children beshit them above a hundred times.
"With all due respect, Monsieur, I would draw your attention to the fact that your general gave us a permit for Dieppe, and I cannot see that we have done anything to justify your hard measures." "I do not shoose dat's all you can co town." They all bowed and withdrew. The afternoon was miserable.
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