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The house, according to the woman who kept a general shop at the corner, was occupied by two families. The "Eye-talians," as she termed them, lived above, while the Gibbonses rented the ground floor. "Oh, yes, sir. The foreigners are respectable enough. Always pays me ready money for everythink, except the milk. That they pays for weekly." "I understand that the wife has disappeared.
"Oh, was that the tall gentleman's name?" "I expect so. Well, here's the missus's written order that whenever they want to come to the 'ouse or go anywheres in the park it's O.K." Mrs. Crowe was wise enough to keep her own counsel, but when the butler retired, she said: "Then I'll obey the missus, an' master can settle it with her. I don't hold by Eye-talians, anyhow."
The last time I was in Rhode Island all the gals sing there, and it's generally allowed there's no such singers anywhere; they beat the EYE-talians a long chalk; they sing so high some on 'em, they go clear out o' hearin' sometimes, like a lark well, you heerd nothin' but 'Oh no, we never mention her; well, I grew so plaguy tired of it, I used to say to myself, I'd sooner see it, than heer tell of it, I vow; I wish to gracious you would 'never mention her, for it makes me feel ugly to hear that same thing for ever and ever and amen that way.
The stout old gentleman, with a bald forehead and an irascibly rosy face, takes it often in another way, confounds the fellows for their impertinence, has serious notions, first, of knocking them down on the spot, and then of calling the police, but finally concludes to take no notice of them, as they are nothing but Eye-talians, who cannot be expected to know how to behave themselves in a rational manner.
Hooper can talk so that people understand him and when you do talk," she turned to the old gentleman, "I notice folks are glad to listen, and so is Grace." "But, my dear," protested the subject of criticism, "they'd listen better an' grin less if I didn't sling words about like one o' these here Eye-talians shovelin' dirt." "You just keep a-shovelin', Mr.
There was none of the characteristic slowness of the Scottish nation in his manner or language as he yelled down the fore-hatch: "Tumble up, there! Some damned Eye-talians are goin' to hammer the boss. Bring along a monkey-wrench or the first thing to hand. Shar-r-p's the wo-r-rd!" Forthwith there poured from the hatchway a miscellaneous mob of seamen, firemen and stewards.
He got away with that, because they had all been taught to hate the "Britishers" in their school-books, and they didn't know very much about Frenchmen and "Eye-talians". But when Jimmie went on to say that the American government was as bad as the German government that all governments were run by capitalists, and all went to war for foreign markets and such plunder then what a hornet's nest he brought about his ears!
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