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Myron, where a new baby is come, do want a somebody to sit wiz her zis afternoon, so her seester get a leetle rest! Joe Granger, whose vife is away, do long for one goot dinner zis noon and they do need for Mother Flaherty a chair which will raise and lower, zat she may rest from her bed." "Dear me, it is a jumble!" laughed Joyce. "Well, let me help you out.
It is he that might do this easel." "Just the thing! Only he couldn't get the materials together, I fear wait! Where does he live?" "In a leetle house back behind of the Vorks, and a seester zat ees older do housekeep, I believe. She is not good." Marie spoke reluctantly, and turned sad eyes upon Joyce. "Oh! that is dreadful," cried the latter. "Perhaps ah! a ring."
The poor lonely boy was weeping and Charlie Sands may say what he likes! He was really crying when he turned, there were large tears on his cheeks. What made it worse was that he was trying to smile. "I wish you much happiness on the canal," he said. "I am wicked; but my sad heart it ache that my friends leave me. I am sad! If only my seester "
"I go wiz Uncle Sam! My seester will sing ze Marsellaise!" "Yes," said Tom. "She can sing it all she wants." "If zey are not yet killed," Frenchy added, looking intently out upon the ocean. "I kind of feel that they're not," said Tom simply. "Sometimes I have feelings like that and they usually come out true." Frenchy looked suddenly at him, then embraced him.
For, you see, by addressing a mammy as seester, she might think either that you were unconscious of her dignity as a married lady a matter she would soon put you right on or that you were flirting, which of course was totally foreign to your intention, and would make you uncomfortable. My advice is that you rigidly stick to missus or mammy. I have seen this done most successfully.
The ladies are divided into three classes; the young girl you address as "tee-tee"; the young person as "seester"; the more mature charmer as "mammy"; but I do not advise you to employ these terms when you are on your first visit, because you might get misunderstood.
This is only something like it: "Dthee State of Louisiana," etc. Jean d'Eau, Mr. Richard Reau, and Mr. V. Deblieux Ecswyzee. 'My father and mother are dade. I have no chil'ren. I have never had annie brawther or seester. I have never been marri-ed. Thees is my laz weel. I have never made a weel befo'. I weel and bickweath to my fran' Camille Ducour dthe sawm of fifteen hawndred dollars in cash.
It must be a long time since you saw your people." "Saw! Even I haf' not heard for t'ree year. Eight years ago I fled away. Even before America is in ze war I haf' no letters. Ze Zhermans tear zem up! Ah, no matter. When it is all over and ze boundary line is back at ze Rhine again zen I will see zem. My pappa, my moother, my seester Florette " His eyes glistened and he paused.
"I will tell you," said Frenchy, reverting to Tom's previous question. "I am zhust ze same age as you sefenteen when zey throw my seester in ze zhail because she sing ze Marsellaise. Zat I cannot stand! You see? When ze soldiers fat Zhermans, ugh! When zey come for her, I strike zis fat one here so." "I'm glad you did," said Tom. "Hees eye I cut open, so.
My pappa have to pay fine when hees cheeldren speak ze French. My little seester when she sing ze Marsellaise she must go t'ree days to ze Zherman zhail!" "You mean to prison?" Tom asked. "Just for singing the Marsellaise! Why, the hand-organs play that where I live!" "Ah, yess Americ'! In Alsace, even before ze war you sing ze Marsellaise, t'ree days you go to ze zhail.
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