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'As the beggar struck for that? I s'pose 'e'll be wantin' wages next." "Oh, shutta da gab!" snapped the Signor. "That's all very well," retorted Trotter. "But I'm an Englishman, I am. You're only a furriner; you're used to bein' put upon. But I'm ." Bill growled again and rose to his feet. Trotter tossed him a piece of meat. All that was long ago.
"So it befell; an' for five year' neither Isaac nor me opened mouth 'pon it, not to each other even. An' then, one noonday, a sailor knocks at the door; an' goin' out, I seed he was a furriner, wi' great white teeth showin' dro' his beard. 'I be come to see Mister Isaac Lenine, he says, in his outlandish English.
I bet we broke all the records for that stretch of road this morning I never knew the old boat had it in her." "Who was it?" asked Barney. "I dunno," replied the driver. "Talked like a furriner, and looked the part. Bushy black beard. Said he was a German army officer, an' had to beat it back on account of the war. Seemed to me like he was mighty anxious to get back there an' be killed."
Yes, sir that's what I said she's a-settin' here, sir on the sofa with the furriner yes, sir!" He put his head around the velvet curtain. "Will you speak to your father, Miss?" His awe-struck hand held the receiver and he helped the strange, little figure to its seat in front of the 'phone. She put the tube to her lips. "Hallo, Daddy. Yes, it's Betty.... Mr.
Hale felt a plucking at his sleeve. It was the boy with the dagger at his elbow. "Less see you laugh that-a-way agin," said Bub with such deadly seriousness that Hale unconsciously broke into the same peal. "Now," said Bub, unwinking, "I ain't afeard o' you no more." Awaiting dinner, the mountaineer and the "furriner" sat on the porch while Bub carved away at another pine dagger on the stoop.
"'Oh, there's many a true word said in joke, says I. "'Thrue for you, Paddy, says he. "'Oh, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in airnest now, says he; 'you gommoch, says he, 'sure I told you before that's France and, sure, they're all furriners there, says the captain. "'Well, says I, 'and how do you know but I'm as good a furriner myself as any o' thim?
'Pears like Abe had foun' a streak o' iron ore on the lan', an' had racked his jinny right down to Hazlan an' tol' the furriner, who was thar a-buyin' wild lands right an' left. Co'se, Abe was goin' to make the furriner whack up fer gittin' the lan' so cheap.
He wuz some kind o' a furriner, an' ef what you tell us 'bout him is true, Paul, as I reckon it is, it wuz his mind that led his men on to victory over the Rooshians an' the Prooshians an' the French an' the Dutch." "Over the Romans, Sol." "Ez I told you once, Paul, it makes no diff'unce. They're all furriners, an' all furriners are jest the same. Hannybul wuz the kind that wouldn't give up.
They give a woman ten years for a sight less than this. An' you'll 'ave to pay 'undreds an' 'undreds o' pounds, besides a pension to the missus. You'll see, you physickin' furriner. Where's your licence to do such? You'll catch it, I tell you!"
On the heels of the soldiers came a young preacher up from the Jellico hills, half "citizen," half "furriner," with long black hair and a scar across his forehead, who was stirring up the people, it was said, "as though Satan was atter them." Over there the spirit of the feud was broken, and a good effect was already perceptible around Hazlan.
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