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The sight of this gigantic ape dancing a Highland Fling stirred the drunken Dutchman to wildest merriment; he howled with delight. "Goot, goot! Some more Sharlie!" he yelled. "Dance, dance. Mein Gott, dot's der greadest sight I effer haff see me." This was the strange and awful spectacle Mrs. Schmitz tumbled upon, returning from a week's stay at Rattletrap.
'It iss a most extraordinary affair, for there iss not a man on the island one could effer be suspecting of doing such a thing; and if it wass a stranger, the wonder iss how he will be managing to come and go without being seen. The letter-box wass broken into from inside the house, and whoever will be doing it must have got in after MacAlister and his wife wass gone to bed.
Lady Thrum would die sooner than speak to that unhappy young woman; and, in fact, the Thrums have a new pupil, who is a siren without the dangerous qualities of one, who has the person of Venus, and the mind of a Muse, and who is coming out at one of the theatres immediately. Baroski says, "De liddle Rafenschwing is just as font of me as effer!"
"Yes, I know, he waded the creek vone time und you has had cold feet effer since." Poor fellow, I felt sorry for him. I had cold feet myself just then, and I was powerfully anxious to warm them by my own fire where a pair of calm blue eyes would reassure me. I didn't get to see the branding that was to have taken place on the range that day.
I'd have beaten him in another round," boasted Andy Foger. No one paid any attention to him. "Monsieur ezz plucky!" said the Frenchman, Perique. "I am honaired to shake his hand! He has broken all ze records!" "Dot's der best machine I effer saw," spoke the Dutchman, De Tromp, ponderously. "Shake hands!"
"Yes, or like preaching," replied the M.P.P. "One on you, Dad!" said the irrepressible Fatty. Meantime Sutherland was warmly complimenting Cameron on his playing. "You haf been well taught," he said. "No one taught me," said Cameron. "But we had a famous old piper at home in our Glen, Macpherson was his name." "Macpherson! Did he effer play at the Braemar gathering?"
"You tam lowland scoon'rel!" cries he, and hit me a buffet on the jaw with his closed fist. I paid him as good or better on the return; whereupon he stepped a little back and took off his hat to me decorously. "Enough plows, I think," says he. "I will be the offended shentleman, for who effer heard of such suffeeciency as tell a shentlemans that is the King's officer he canna speak Cot's English?
"I had me only a glimbs of him. He looked about the same as effer. He was in a hurry, for it rained a liddle; und under his coat yet he carried his fiddle." "If it was under his coat, how do you know it was his fiddle?" The German scratched his head in a reflective way. "I don't know it," said he at last.
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