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I've known you all ever since you were born. Ho! Ho!" and he laughed, and his laugh seemed very jolly. "Very well," replied Father, "pardon my mistake Friend Santy, then. Would you be so good as to distribute the presents?" "Deelighted!" said Santy with a bow, "Marmaduke, you hand 'em to me and I'll read off the names."
And pretty soon I seen him gettin' all red and I knew he was goin' to shoot some French at the old lady, and, sure enough, out he come with, 'Madame je swee enchantay." "Well, sir, I like to 've died tryin' to keep from laughin' at that, because what it means translated is, 'Madam, I'm deelighted. Trust them marines to say the right thing at the wrong time I'll say they do."
Dad could not understand the change in the attitude of the people towards us until I told him that they took him for a distinguished American statesman, and that as long as we were in Russia he must try to look like George Washington and act like Theodore Roosevelt, so every little while dad would stand up in the aisle of the car and pose like George Washington and when anybody gave him a sandwich or a cigarette he would show his teeth and say, "Deelighted," and all the way to St.
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