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Shust as ve make a big catch, und all honest, somedings go wrong, und der Russians nab us, dake our skins and our schooner, und send us mit der anarchists to Siberia. Ach! a pretty pad piziness!" "Yes, that's where it hurts," the sea lawyer went on. "Fifteen hundred skins in the salt piles, and all honest, a big pay-day coming to every man Jack of us, and then to be captured and lose it all!
At this threat, the brilliant black eyes emitted a shower of angry sparks, and she exclaimed in derision, "Ze Buzno will dake us do brizon, ha! ha! ha!" "Ze Buzno will dake us do brizon, hee! hee! hee!" giggled the little impish child who tugged at her skirts. The old woman pressed forward and mumbled, "'Ol' oud your 'an', my pretty fellow.
"'Papa says, come over. He wants to see you, said Abie. "As I went into the store a minute before six, Alex was pacing up and down the floor. My samples were spread upon the show case. "'Eff you vant your samples, dake 'em avay yourself. Do you subbose I raice poys to vait on draveling men? said Alex. He was keeping up his bluff well. "With this I began to stack together my samples. "'Vait!
Darco began to prowl about the room, setting chairs in place with great precision, arranging ornaments on the chimney-shelf, and settling pictures on the wall with methodical exactness, muttering meanwhile, 'Nodes. Dake nodes. I am dalking to my brivade zegredary. Nodes. Dake nodes. Paul was familiar with his ways, and waited seriously. 'But this down, said Darco, pacing and turning suddenly.
She knew also that Tad Brooks, Larry Parker, Jim Long, and Dake Foster were merely henchmen of the worthy Jed, and not negligible quantities when taken by themselves. But over the name of Timothy Forbes "Delicate Forbes," Bud explained was his nickname the boy lingered with that loving inflection of admiration that a younger boy will sometimes have for a husky, courageous older lad.
Darco shook the room again by a new plunge into the armchair, and the trembling landlady cleared away. 'Now, dake nodes! he roared, as she left the room. 'I shall be very glad to take notice, sir, said the landlady. 'Nodes! shouted Darco. 'Nodes. I am not dalking to you. I am dalking to my brivade zegredary. Paul seized a pencil, set a pile of paper before him on the table, and waited.
"At a word, then, to make the matter as simple as possible, and as fair as possible, I'll tell you what I'll give or take." "Vell?" "Of course, it would not be fair for the one who goes out to commence the same business. I would not do it. There should be a written agreement to this effect." "Yes. Vell, vat vill you give or dake?" "I'll give or take three thousand dollars; I don't care which."
A feeling of compassion for my creaking boots surged up in me, so well could I imagine the sorrowful long curiosity of regard which he would bend on them. "Zome boods," he said slowly, "are bad from birdt. If I can do noding wid dem, I dake dem off your bill." He took my order without showing me any leather, and I could feel his eyes penetrating the inferior integument of my foot.
"Dose shkvarehet shkippers vould dake a cheese-box to sea mit a cargo of le't," commented Steve. "All dey care for is de havin' de yob. De owner he don't care if de vessel sink mit de insurance." When Alex had shuffled out of the cottage, I gave the Dutchman the course of his narrative again.
Our school textbooks tell us that action and reaction are equal and opposite; and this familiar phrase gives meaning to the saw, Pelmavè dakâl dakè, 'She is equal, the thing struck to the hammer, meaning that woman's equality to man is no more effective than the reaction of the leather on the mallet. Thleen delkint treen lalfe zevleen, ''Twixt fogs and clouds she dreams of stars."
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