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Shust you go along quiet und easy like Shupiter oup dere. Lots off dings vill dry to bull dis vay and dot vay outen der right orpt, put dond you mind 'em, und shust go right schtrait along und not care. You veels too mooch apout oder beoples.
Ef dem vaces in der veels, and dem awvool veels in der veels, and dem figures vot always says aideen huntert vordy dree, ef dem tond mean sompin awvool, vot does dey mean? mean? Hey?" "My venerated friend and feller-citizen of forren birth," said Jonas, "you hit the nail on the crown of the head squar, with the biggest sort ov a sledge-hammer.
She was not the strong-framed peasant, but of lighter build and somewhat finer fiber than the average immigrant, and her dark hair and eyes seemed to point to South Germany as her place of origin. "Wilhelmina she so badly veels to-day," added Mrs. Schulenberg. "I don' know" and she shook her head ominously "I vas mos' afraid to leef her all py herself already. She is with bein' zick zo tired.
"Mother, she were a good woman no better woman in the parish, parson did say. She taught us to say every night, 'Our Father, which art in heaven' I often used to think on it at night in the trenches. Them nights they do make you think a lot. It be mortal queer up there you veels as if you were on the edge of the world.
'They von't be long, Sir, I des-say, replied Sam. 'There's a Dutch clock, sir. 'So I see, observed Mr. Pickwick. 'And a bird-cage, sir, says Sam. 'Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison. Ain't it, Sir? As Mr. Weller made this philosophical remark, Mr. Pickwick was aware that his sitting had commenced.
What did you think it was made of iron?" "I knew something would happen!" observed Mr. Sneed, gloomily. "I felt it in my bones." "Und I guess me dot he veels it in his bones, now," chuckled Mr. Switzer. "I am glat dot I, myself, did not abandon dot chair alretty yet."
This was a common form of social meeting, and we find in the memoirs of Adolphus and John Taylor and Frederick Reynolds descriptions of the "Keep the Line," "The Finish," and other oddly-named societies. The cheerful glass was the chief object. Mr. Lowten's Club, "The Magpie and Stump," in Clare Market, supplies a specimen of a lower class club. "Veels vithin veels," as Sam would say.
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