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From the chuckling and laughter that finally set up in one place and another he began dimly to comprehend that he was being made fun of, used as an unsatisfactory jest of some kind. Finally his face clouded for a storm and his eyes blazed, the while his fat red cheeks grew redder. "Donnervetter!" he began gutturally to roar. "Schweine hunde! Hunds knoche! Nach der polizei soll man reufen!"
'Why are you not firing? he demanded, and by his harsh guttural voice Ken knew him at once for a German. 'We are out of ammunition, he answered readily. 'Schweine Hund! Do you not know enough to say "Sir" to an officer when he addresses you? 'Your pardon, sir, said Ken gruffly. 'The light is so bad, and my eyes sting with the powder smoke.
The bow-oar of the German boat, who had a blood-stained bandage round his head, also stared. "Engländer!" he said. "Verdammte Schweine!" and added, "Fünf! ..." whereupon he and his companions also averted their heads, because they were four. They passed each other thus. The waves that washed over the raft rolled the dead man's head to and fro, as if he found the situation rather preposterous.
In a very short time, the man returned and put down before him a gemuse suppe, following this with schweine fleisch, sauerkraut, and gherkins a luncheon which might have been cooked in a German's own kitchen and set before him a glass of beer which Edestone would have sworn had not been brewed outside of the city of Munich.
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