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Dick Henderson is say dose Injun is Ojibway Injun Ojibway Injun two t'ousand mile wes' on Peace Reever! Dat's curi's!" "I was tell you nodder story " went on Achille, after a moment. "Never mind," interrupted the Trader. "I believe you."
"Dere's a loidy here," continued Spike, addressing the chest of drawers, "dat's got a necklace of jools what's wort' a hundred t'ousand plunks. Honest, boss. A hundred t'ousand plunks. Saunders told me dat de old gazebo dat hands out de long woids. I says to him, 'Gee! an' he says, 'Surest t'ing youse know. A hundred t'ousand plunks!" "So I understand," said Jimmy.
He has been known to say, with a solemnity that might tickle the humorous and horrify the timid, that he wouldn't "hab dat game leg made straight agin! no, not for a hundred t'ousand pounds. 'Cause why? it was an eber-present visible reminder dat once upon a time he had de libes ob massa and Nadgel in his arms a-hangin' on to his game leg, an' dat, t'rough Gracious Goodness, he sabe dem bof!" Ha!
When he soldier, and general say shoot ten, forty, t'ousand Frenchmen, den he say; stop, general no hurry let cap'in t'ink. Bye'm-by he'll go and take scalp; eh!" It exceeded our old soldier's self-command not to permit the blood to rush into his face, at this home-thrust; for he felt the cunning of the Indian had involved him in a seeming contradiction.
"I'm going to draw you up a paper as you asked me to. Now how do you know you have the man?" "It iss ten t'ousand tallers. You make me out dot paper you gif me half yet." "Damn it! You answer my question. I can't make this out unless I know you're going to come up to the scratch." He made a show of writing, and talked at the same time.
If you do that, you are sure of the money, and if you change it in the least, or show the least sign of backing down, we neither of us get it. Understand?" Again the Swede arose, and stood looking at him sullenly. "It iss ten t'ousand tallers, und I get it half, eh?" "Oh, you go to thunder!"
The listening monkey cocked its ear a little higher at this, and Moses, who had at first raised his flat nose indignantly in the air, gradually lowered it, while a benignant smile supplanted indignation. "You're right dere, Massa Nadgel. I'd die a t'ousand times sooner dan injure massa. As to your last obserwation, it rouses two idees in my mind.
"Why didn't youse open it an' read it, den, instead of lettin' me do it to keep me busy while youse short-changed me?" sneered Dago Jim. "Youse t'ought it was some sweet billy-doo, eh? Well, t'anks, Wowzer dat's wot it is! Say," he mocked, "dere's a guy'll cash a t'ousand century notes fer dis, an' if he don't say, dere's SOME reward out fer the Gray Seal! Wouldn't youse like to know who it is?
Then, very slowly inch by inch, as though afraid of awakening a sleeping person, he lowered himself to the ground. When he turned toward the young hunters it was with an expression that Rod had never seen upon Mukoki's face before. "What is it, Mukoki?" The old Indian gasped, as if for fresh air. "Cabin she filled with twent' t'ousand dead men!" he replied.
It's one hundred t'ousand plunks fer dese." "Spike," said Jimmy with painful calm. "Huh?" "Will you listen for a moment?" "Sure." "I know it's practically hopeless. To get an idea into your head, one wants a proper outfit drills, blasting-powder, and so on. But there's just a chance, perhaps, if I talk slowly.
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