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"Wall, then, the supper, Sairay. You must know what you was eatin', child! Did Mis' Norris use her rale chany that the cap'n brung over, or only the gold-banded? And did she hev on them queer furrin' presarves, with ginger an' spices in 'em, or only home-made?" "Well, let me see.
Stung by the mystery of Eskew's silence, the Squire's imagination had become magically gymnastic; and if anything under heaven could have lifted the veil, this was the thing. Mr. Arp's reply may be reverenced. "I consider," he said, deliberately, "that James G. Blaine's furrin policy was childish, and, what's more, I never thought much of HIM!"
While he stood at one of the windows, looking gloomily out on the autumn landscape, he heard the voices of 'Dolf and his spinster inamorata in the area below. "What's marster gwine to have done to de tree?" Clo asked. "He's afeared it's deceasin'," replied Dolf, pompously, "and he wishes to perwent." "Don't come none o' yer furrin lingo over me," said Clorinda, angrily.
Of course it was comparatively easy to bring merchandise, and what not, by way of the thumb and little finger and send the same forth by the three exits, known to Timothy Goodale as "furrin parts." Timothy was excessively British, as so many Canadians are, but he was a broad-minded man in his sympathies, and a friend to all when it paid.
"I wouldn't mind seein' that furrin town. I saw a town once when I wuz a little boy. It wuz Baltimore, an' a pow'ful big place it wuz, most nigh set my head to swimmin'. I heard tell that ez many ez eight or ten thousand people lived thar. Sounds impossible but some o' 'em swore it wuz true." "We'll prepare at once for the journey," said Henry. All set to work.
He had recognized the reason of their hesitation and knew the strong racial antagonism held towards the negro and Indian by Mr. Hoover's Southwestern compatriots, and he could not refrain from "rubbing it in." "They kin see," interposed Mrs. Hoover, "that she's not a nigger, for her hair don't 'kink, and a furrin Injin, of course, is different from one o' our own."
"Wot sort o' copper?" demanded the urchin, "there's three sorts of 'em, you know, in this 'ere kingdom which appears to be a queendom at present there's a farding and a ha'penny and a penny. I mention it, capp'n," he added apologetically, "in case you don't know, for you look as if you'd come from furrin parts."
He had heard how remarkably healthy their pupils were." "'Twan't in this country, or you'd speak more nateral like." "No, it was in Brussels." "Oh, yes; in England, I suppose." "No, on the continent of Europe; a city in Belgium, the capital." "And you've talked a furrin tongue, then." "Yes, several; but the German is the only one I speak quite correctly."
"Said his doctor had ordered him to quit town under an hour, owing to a comin' attack of hay fever, and he had a friend from furrin parts waitin' him at the Springs, Rosey," explained Nott, hesitating between his desire to avoid his daughter's eyes and his wish to observe her countenance. "Was he worse? I mean did he look badly, father?" inquired Rosey, thoughtfully. "I reckon not exactly bad.
The iguana was soon skinned and broiled, and we all of us commenced eating with good appetites. "Be Saint Pathrick!" said Chane, "this bates frog-atin' all hollow. It's little meself dhramed, on the Owld Sod, hearin' of thim niggers in furrin parts, that I'd be turning kannybawl meself some day!" "Don't you like it, Murtagh?" asked Raoul jocosely.
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