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What is the natur' of the matter action on the case, or a tort?" "Nein, nein! it isht not law dat I wants, put atfice." "Well, but advice leads to law, ninety-nine times in a hundred." "Ya, ya!" answered the pedlar, laughing; "dat may be so; put it isht not what I vants I vants to know vere a Charman can trafel wit' his goots in de coontry, and not in de pig towns."
"A Charmans ein Teutscher." "A German ine Tycher is the place you come from, I s'pose?" "Nein ein Teutscher isht a Charman." "Oh, yes! I understand. How long have you been in Ameriky?" "Twelf moont's." "Why, that's most long enough to make you citizens. Where do you live?" "Nowhere; I lifs jest asht it happens soometimes here, ant soometimes dere." "Ay, ay!
The right spirit is in you. I hope you're no patroon no aristocrat?" "I don't know vat isht badroon, or vat isht arishtocrat." "No! You are a happy man in your ignorance. A patroon is a nobleman who owns another man's land; and an aristocrat is a body that thinks himself better than his neighbours, friend."
"Ye-e-s," I replied; "it isht my condition dat misleats you, sir. Mine fat'er wast a shentlemans, and he gifet me as goot an etication as de Koenig did gif to de Kron Prinz." Here, my desire to appear well in the eyes of Mary caused me to run into another silly indiscretion.
A young lady may still say "Papa," or even "Mamma," though it were far better that she said "Father" and "Mother;" but as for "Pa" and "Ma," they are now done with in respectable life. They will not even do for the nursery. "And this instrument is a hurdy-gurdy?" continued the clergyman. "What have we here the name spelt on it?" "Dat isht de maker's name Hochstiel fecit."
"I coomes vrom Halle, in Preussen. Vat isht your vaterland?" "Be yees a Jew?" "Nein I isht a goot Christian. Vilt you haf Yankee Tootle?" "Yankee T'under! Ye'll wake up the masther, and he'll be displais'd, else ye might work upon t'at tchune till the end of time. That I should hear it here, in my own liberary, and ould Ireland t'ree thousand laigues away!"
"Well, den, I isht no badroon, for I don't own no land at all, not even mine own; and I ishn't petter asht no poty at all." "Yes, you be; you've only to think so, and you'll be the greatest gentleman of 'em all." "Well, den, I will dry and dink so, and be petter asht de greatest shentlemans of dem all.
The king said, this morning, 'Vell, dere isht Bluevater; of him we are shure asht of ter sun. You stand excellently well there, to my great delight; and I need only say, be watchful and prompt. "Yours, with the most sincere faith and attachment, my dear Bluewater, &c., &c. "P. S. I have just heard that they have sent you the red riband. The king himself, was in this."
"Fecit!" repeated the clergyman; "is that German?" "Nein dat isht Latin; facio, feci, factum, facere feci, feciste, FECIT. It means make, I suppose you know." The parson looked at me, and at my dress and figure, with open surprise, and smiled as his eye glanced at his daughter.
In my coontry, efery mans isht obliget to be a soldier some time, and them t'at knows Latin can be made sergeants and corporals." "That is Prussia, is it?" "Ya Preussen, vere so late did reign de goot Koenig Wilhelm." "And is Latin much understood among you? I have heard that, in Hungary, most well-informed persons even speak the tongue." "In Charmany it isht not so.
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