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Updated: May 11, 2025
Only now me got on Sout 'Meriky, which me know is not far from Nord 'Meriky, an' me bin here before wid me moder, so kin show you how to go and speak Spanish too me moder speak dat, you sees; but mesilf larn English aboord two tree ships, an', so, speak him fust rate now."
An' he gives me de number of dis house, an' says dis is where a widder-lady lives all alone, an' has got silver mugs and t'ings to boin, an' dat she's away down Sout', so dere ain't nobody in de house. Gee! I'll soak it to dat Swede! It was a raw deal, boss. He was just hopin' to put me in bad wit' you. Dat's how it was, boss. Honest!"
Barclay and Horton were there, and as they swallowed their liquor, looked at each other and winked. Horton whispered: "Rivers is a little 'sprung' to-day." "D d tight, in my opinion," replied Barclay. In a few moments Josh. came in, and in a very important tone asked for Stemples. "Stemple sout! Hellow, Josh., that you?" said Rivers, slapping him on the shoulder.
"Why, man, they don't come north of fourteen here in these waters." "Then," replied Olson, "ye're sout' of fourteen, me b'y." We thought he was crazy; but he wasn't, for that afternoon we sighted a great berg south of us, and we'd been running north, we thought, for days.
Di'n't I tell you I was born an' raised among de Andes in Sout' Ameriky?" "To be sure, I forgot that, but there must be a considerable difference between the two mountain ranges." "Das troo, massa, but de diff'rence don't make much diff'rence to de legs.
"No matter," interrupted Rushford. "Which is the next best of your apartments, Pelletan?" "T'e nex' best? Why, apartment B, monsieur. Eet iss t'e counterpart of apartment A, only on t'e nort' side of t'e house instead of t'e sout'." "And it is still empty?" "At two hundret francs t'e tay? Oh, yess, monsieur; only a Prince can afford eet now." "Well, you will prepare it at once "
They did not, though they listened hard; but the half-breed had been born in the wilderness, and they could not think him mistaken. For a minute or two his pose suggested strained attention, and then he smiled. "White man come from ze sout'. Mais, oui! He come, sure t'ing." Lane nodded. "I guess he's right. I can hear it now; but I can't figure on the kind of outfit."
Moreover, I eats no more dan a babby 'sep wen I's hungry an' I'll foller you, massa, troo tick and tin to de Nort Pole, or de Sout Pole, or de East Pole, or de West Pole or any oder pole wotsomediver all de same to Butterface, s'long's you'll let 'im stick by you."
"Infernal scoundrel," Hans would cry with many gestures, "he figger it out in his own little black het and neffer tell nobody, so. He know to hisself dat Carey's Crossing's too fur sout, so an' Big Wolf Creek too fur nort, so." Hands wide apart, and eyes red with anger. "He know der survey go between like it, so! And he figger it hit yust fer it hit Grass River, nort fork.
"Now you see, Sare, if de wind blow off de shore, den it will be west wind; if it blow from de sea, den it will be east wind; and if it blow down coast," pointing to each quarter with his hand like a weather-cock, "den it will sartain be sout; and up de coast, den you will be sartain it will come from de nort. I never knew dat sign fail."
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