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"Tousand tyfels!" roared the corporal, dashing his foot upon one of the flaps of the little table before them with so much force, that it was broken short off and fell down on the floor. "Hundred tousand tyfels!" continued the corporal, when he witnessed the effects of his violence.
"Gott in Himmel," finished the corporal, "I never was so frightened in my life. I see him now, as plain as I see you, mynheer. Twenty tousand tyfels, but the voice was like de tunder and his eye like de lightning I fell back in one swoon. Ah, mein Gott, mein Gott!"
"Tousand tyfels!" roared the corporal, dashing his foot upon one of the flaps of the little table before them with so much force, that it was broken short off and fell down on the floor. "Hundred tousand tyfels!" continued the corporal, when he witnessed the effects of his violence.
"Tousand tyfels," murmured Corporal Van Spitter, "but it must have been the skipper. Got for dam, dis is hanging matter!" Corporal Van Spitter was as cool as a cucumber as soon as he observed what a mistake he had made; in fact he quivered and trembled in his fat. "But then," thought he, "perhaps he did not know me no, he could not, or he never would have handspiked me."
And now a shower of rain and sleet came down upon the unprotected body of the corporal, which added to his misery, to his fear, and to his despair. "Where am I?" muttered he: "what will become of me? Ah, mein Gott! twenty tousand tyfels what had I to do in a boat I, Corporal Van Spitter?" and then he was again silent for nearly half an hour.
"A tousand tyfels!" at last muttered the corporal, as the searching blast crept round his fat sides, and made him shiver.
"Well, a perhaps is better than nothing at all," said the lad. "Yes," observed Short. "That depends upon sarcumstances," observed Spurey. "What sort of a breakfast would you make upon a perhaps?" "A good one, perhaps," replied Smallbones, grinning at the jingling of the words. "Twenty dozen tyfels, Smallbones is in de right," observed Jansen, who had taken no part in the previous conversation.
He tried to recollect something else, but was equally unsuccessful; at last, he made up a sad mixture of swearing and praying. "Mein Gott a hundred tousand tyfels gut Gott twenty hundred tousand tyfels! Ah, Gott of mercy million of tyfels! holy Gott Jesus! twenty millions of tyfels Gott for dam, I die of cold!"
"A tousand tyfels!" at last muttered the corporal, as the searching blast crept round his fat sides, and made him shiver.
"Tousand tyfels!" at last exclaimed the corporal, and he paused and knocked his big head with his fist. "Hundred thousand tyfels!" repeated the corporal after five minutes' more thought. "Twenty hundred tousand tyfels!" muttered the corporal, once more knocking his head: but he knocked in vain; like an empty house, there was no one within to answer the appeal.
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