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Updated: June 9, 2025
Under his breath, Rossi was making ecstatic noises in a thick, and quite ineffable, European accent. He sounded like a bad Italian wine with a French label bottled in Austria and shipped via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Alaska where it was smuggled south on a Canadian ship. "She eez a true artiste..." Try as I might, I could not convince her to come away with me.
'Eez, zur, he would reply, 'uz did thuck job isterday. His master had ordered him to do it the day before, but was oblivious that twenty-four hours had passed. The middle-aged men stood this continuous drinking without much harm, their constitutions having become hardened and 'set, but it killed off numbers of the younger men.
"Horses!" exclaimed the quack; "these are not horses. These are boneyards. Every one of them is as much worse than mine as mine is than the black stallion you stole in Pittsburg on the twenty-first day of last October." "Worze zan yourz! It eez impozzeeble!" answered the gypsy, as if he had not heard the accusation. "Ziz horze ov yourz eez what you call a crow-zcare!
Once more shrugging those expressive shoulders which seemed to have a language of their own, the gypsy said "Chicarona, you do not luf ze leedle pindarri. Zell 'er to ze Buzno. Ee eez made of gol'." As Baltasar uttered these words, he approached his wife and whispered something in her ear at which she started.
"Well, that's very far south. We suffer yes, we suffer, but our poor poultry suffer more." "Ze ze pooltree? Wat eez zat?" Clifford explained. "In summer the fire engines are detailed to throw water on the hens to keep their feathers from singeing. Singeing spoils the flavor." The Frenchman growled.
"One hundred dollars," he replied. "One hunner dollars! You paid more zan twize as much vor ze horze! Eez nod a woman worth more zan a horze?" "She will be, when she is a woman. She is a child now." "Let me zee ze color of your money!" He drew a leather wallet from his pocket and held it tantalizingly before her eyes.
Two miles above Kildonan woods the Wolf had stopped his gallop to walk over to the sled trail, had followed it a few yards, then had returned to the woods. "Paul he drop somesin' here, ze packet maybe; ze Voolf he come for smell. He follow so now he know zat eez ze drunken Paul vot slash heem on ze head." A mile farther the Wolf track came galloping on the ice behind the cariole.
"I can," with a ghost of a smile. "Make heem," with a pompous wave of the hand toward the favorite ingredients. "What kind?" "Vot kind! Eez zare more cocktails, zen?" "Only two that are proper, the manhattan and the martini." "Make zee martini; I know heem." "But cocktails ought not be mixed before serving." "I say, make zee one cocktail," coldly and skeptically. "I test heem."
The officer had evidently heard quickly from his sergeant and was inclined to back him up, for in substance he said to the offended British officer: "Wee, pardon, mon ker-nell, it eez bad," meaning I am sorry, "but will ze gallant ker-nell please to remember zat consequently zare eez no French offitzair wiz ze French de-tach-mont, ze sar-zhont will be treated wiz ze courtesy due to ze offitzair."
"Bud, w'ere dad Madjor Shaughnessy?" demanded M. D'Hemecourt, with the little sternness he could command. "Mayor Shaughness' yez-a; was there; boat-a," with a disparaging smile and shake of the head, "he woon-a come-a to you. Senor, oh' no." The old man smiled bitterly. "Non?" he asked. "Oh, no, Senor!" Mazaro drew his chair closer. "Senor;" he paused, "eez a-vary bath-a fore-a you thaughter, eh?"
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