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So when ye talks ter me about grievances, ye talks a language I kin onderstand without no lingster ter construe hit." He paused a moment, unconscious that his term for an interpreter was one that Englishmen had used in Chaucer's day, and, save here, not since a long-gone time.
'T was a li'l bit of poetry he'd made up to please me and I, fule as I was, didn't say the right thing when he axed me what I thought; so Clem tore the rhymes in pieces an' sent them away. He said the river would onderstand. An' the river onderstands why I dropped them dead blossoms in, tu. A wise, ancient stream, I doubt.
They can't onderstand white folks' ways, and they won't learn um; and ef you treat um decently, they think you ar afeard. You may depend on't, Cap., the only way to treat Injuns is to thrash them well at first, then the balance will sorter take to you and behave themselves."
"How little you onderstand me arter all these years an' never will nobody never will but mother. What did 'e fear? That I'd draw trigger on the man from behind a tree, p'r'aps?" "No not that, but that you might be driven to kill yourself along o' having such a bad wife." "Now we 'm both on the mad road," he said bitterly. Then he picked up his stick and, a moment later, went out into the night.
That's why I watched ye fro' the cairn cliffs, an motioned ye to ge back. Boh ye didna onderstand my signs, or wouldna heed 'em, so ey be cum'd here to stay ye. Yo're i' dawnger, ey tell ye." "In danger of what, my good woman?" demanded the squire uneasily.
The nodded head of assent gave permission and Doane inquired briefly: "Does I onderstand ye ter plead fer ther Harpers an' ther Doanes ter 'bide by ther old truce an' yit ter seek ter stand free yore own self an' kill yore own enemy?"
As you knows, this thing's been goin' for'ard for some time, an' I desires to hear if from any standp'int of public interest do you-all figger that steps should be took? "In order to fully onderstand Enright in all he means, I oughter lay bar' that Dave's been conductin' himse'f in a manner not to be explained for mighty likely she's eight weeks.
"You see, March," continued Bounce in a quiet way, thrusting his rugged countenance close to the embers occasionally, and blowing up the spark which he had kindled by means of flint, steel, and tinder "you see, this is a cur'ous wurld; it takes a feelosopher to onderstand it c'rectly, and even he don't make much o't at the best.
No, you'll be an ordinary small-potato citizen, like everybody else, and you will probably find it a bit of a change." "I do not onderstand," said the woman. "I have not spoke your language since I was child. Speak what you say again." "I'll leave it to Mr.
Pleise yow onderstand, my Lo. of Gowry and some vtheris his Lo. frendis and veill villeris, qha tendaris his Lo. better preferment, ar vpon the resolucion ye knaw, for the revenge of that cawse; and his Lo. hes vrettin to me anent that purpose, qhairto I vill accorde, incase ye vill stand to and beir a part: and befoir ye resolve, meet me and M.A.R. in the Cannogat on Tysday the nixt owk, and be als var as ye kan.
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