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Then father tried again, and yelled as loud as he could, 'Pree pree! how much-ee, much-ee? Then there was a glimmer of a smile on the man's face, and when father, wholly out of patience, roared out, 'Damnation, are you a fool? he replied, 'No, but I'm a Yankee like yourself, and the price of the carving is twenty-five francs; and, sure enough, he was a chap from Maine.
The Indian stood smiling at my plight. He spoke only a pigeon English, but said, "too much-ee wet." I was in despair; things began to look hopeless again to me. I thought "surely these Mexicans must know how to manage with these floors." Fisher, the steamboat agent, came in, and I asked him if he could not find me a nurse. He said he would try, and went out to see what could be done.
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