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Updated: June 21, 2025
"I doan't onderstand all that talk, sweetheart, an' you knaw I don't; but till some wise body invents a better-fashion way of joining man an' maid than marriage, us must taake it as 'tis." "There is a better way Nature's." She shook her head. "If us could dwell in a hole at a tree-root, an' eat roots an' berries; but we'm thinking creatures in a Christian land."
"'It ain't none onlikely, says Boggs; 'speshully since he's from Buffalo. I never does know but one squar' gent who comes from Buffalo; he's old Jenks. An' at that, old Jenks gets downed, final, by the sheriff over on Sand Creek for stealin' a hoss. "'You-all wants to onderstand, says Jack Moore, cuttin' in after Boggs, 'I don't pretend none to no proofs. I jest reckons it's so.
How stupid it was of Fraulein not to let the matter drop, without saying anything more! Instead of this she held up her hands and exclaimed: "Est-ce possible? Do I onderstand? Nozing? You have not brought nozing for Jean's jour de fete? But perhaps I do not onderstand?" It was so irritating to see her standing there waiting for an answer, that Mary, never very patient, lost her temper completely.
Like all her compeers, she "found the place harder nor she had been give to onderstand, but was willin' to do her best, seein' she had come." Her best was sometimes sour bread, sometimes burned biscuits, generally weak, muddy coffee, always under-seasoned vegetables and over-seasoned soup.
An' at last says he: 'I onderstand, says he, 'very well how it is, says he. 'It's how she was in love, says he, 'wid that bliggard, Billy Malowney, says he, 'bad luck to him! says he; for by this time he was coming to his raison. 'Ah! says the wife, says she, 'Tim darlint, don't be cursin' them that's dead an' buried, says she. 'An' why would not I, says he, 'if they desarve it? says he.
"O na, sir, you don't onderstand," replied the maid, hardly able to restrain herself from laughing outright at the stranger's gross ignorance of mining habits; "not pair o' six all to bed together to one time; you da see miners do work to bal eight hours to a spell, and has sexteen to stay 'bove ground; so one and his comarade sleeps their first eight hours 'bove ground, and then turns out for the next pair; and so they goes on, one pair in and t'other pair out, so that between sex on 'um, the bed's never to say quite empty."
"An' I'm not the only wan that doesn't kape to barricks," sez he. I tuk him by the scruff av his neck, my heart was hung on a hair- thrigger those days, you will onderstand an' "Out wid ut," sez I, "or I'll lave no bone av you unbreakable." "Speak to Dempsey," sez he howlin'. "Dempsey which?" sez I, "ye unwashed limb av Satan." "Av the Bob-tailed Dhragoons," sez he.
I needs that location you've done squatted on because of the water. "'An' do I onderstand, sir, says Coyote some agitated, 'that you'll come with off'cers to put me outen my dug-out? "'Shore, says Peets, in a case-hardened, pitiless tone, 'an' why not? Am I to be debarred of my rights by some coyote-slaughterin' invader an' onmurmurin'ly accede tharto? Which I should shore say otherwise.
In a short time the Arab rowed alongside the flag-ship. "Och! Ally ma boo hookum foldimaronky bang," said the Arab, looking up. "Well, now," exclaimed a surprised Irish tar on board to those near him, "it's often. I've heard that the Arabs had the brogue of Owld Ireland, though the lingo don't square exactly." "Ah then, brother, that's 'cause ye don't onderstand it.
I ain't obleeged to be good no more, and I could' 've drapped one o' yo'uns when y' fust turned offen the road, and got away. I s'pose I'd orter've done hit, and I'd a great mind ter, but suthin' sorter held me back. Onderstand that?"
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