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"Would you call him a Dago or a Polocker, or what?" asked Mike, frowning at the polyglot description. "He is a" answered Sloviski "he is a I dink he come from I dink he is a fool," he concluded, impatient at his linguistic failure, "and if you pleases I will go back at mine delicatessen." "Whatever he is, he's a bird," said Mike Dowling; "and you want to watch him fly."
My Brita iss born, and little Jan, and I dink alvay, 'I must haf home vere dey may know more; and all de days it iss America dat dey say iss home for all, and much money so much no man can be hungry, and vork iss for all. Brita iss ready, and soon ve come, and all de children glad.
It iss a duster, and best of all duster too, for nothing can efer break. "So now he hass rooms dree rooms and many people are to take dem, and to-morrow I go to show how one must hold all de tails, and dere is vork, all I can do; and ven money iss come I dink to go avay, but not soon, for I must help some dat haf no help.
"And now I am on the war path to see if there isn't something to be done for those poor kiddies. If they stay at the Home they will have to be adopted sooner or later maybe separated and that would be a tragedy indeed." She showed the letters from Chester Hunt to the cousin. "Whew! Wouldn't some of these society girls throw fits if they knew about this Dink person?" laughed Alice.
Now if you will lend me a shovel I will clean off your sidewalk for two shillings, and be a great deal more thankful than if you had given me the money for nothing." "Little fear of dot," said the man, with another grin. "Vel, you are der queerest Yankee in Chicago, you are; I dink you are 'bout haf Sherman.
Now, it has struck me, that, perhaps, it might be better, all round, for me to put my five hundred dollars into your business as a partner, and push the whole thing with might and main. How does it strike you?" "Vell, I can't say shust now; I'll dink of him. You put in fife hunnard dollar, you say?" "Yes; five hundred down, in hard cash every dollar in gold." "Fife hunnard. Let us see."
"It so happens we know what you intended to do in regard to my wife, but the mystery to me is what was your idea about my children? Why should you have sent them traveling about the country with this impossible Dink, who is nothing but a dancer in vaudeville with no manners and few morals?
"Youse don't tink youse can put dat over on any wise guy from Chi, do youse? Who will dey tink croaked de old woman an' de ki-yi? Will dey tink dey kilt deyreselves?" "Dey'll tink Byrne an' his pardner croaked 'em, you simp," replied Crumb. Dink scratched his head, and as the possibilities of the scheme filtered into his dull brain a broad grin bared his yellow teeth.
What of the brother? Would his government send him to a foreign post when his wife was the sister of a man they had just sent to the penitentiary? He could hear them say in London, "We know your first secretary, but who is Mrs. Everett?" And the American visitor would explain: "She is the sister of 'Inky Dink, the forger. He is bookkeeping in Sing Sing." Certainly it would be a handicap.
"Why, only last week I pointed the thing at Peleg Snuggers and played at firing it. Supposing it had gone off and killed somebody?" And he shivered again. "Dot vos almost as pad as von Indian's schalping," put in Hans faintly. "I dink, Tom, you vos play no more such dricks, hey?" "No, I've had enough," replied Tom very soberly.
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