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He couldn't give me half of it, you see, for it wouldn't be good for anyfing if it was busted." "No?" The stranger felt that the child's logic was better than his moral tone. "I'm going to be good now, all ve time," the boy went on, looking up with an angelic smile. "When my mamma says 'No, Mac, I shall say 'All right, and when my papa smites me, I shall turn ve uvver also. Vat's ve way."
"Guess he did it to get square for losing that swimming race," put in another of the hazers. "More than likely. We ought to square up with him for it." "That's the talk." "Vat's der madder mit tossing him a blanket up?" asked Hans earnestly. "Think that's a good way to get square, eh, Hans?" laughed Sam. "Dot's der vorst bunishments vot I know of," said the German boy with deep conviction.
Klusky had watched his face closely. "Vat's the mattaire? Vy do you make like that, eh? Tell me." His voice was sharp. "You've got it." "I've got it? Oi! Oi! I've got it! Vat have I got?" He knew before the answer came, but raved and cursed in frenzied denial. His tongue started, language flowed from him freely. "It ain't that. No! No! It is the rheumatissen. Yes, it shall be so.
"Complain? vat's de use complain? de Town Major, he nice man, he kind to us, but he no find de soldiers dat come, and if he find zem he punish zem but ve get nussing. Vat's de use punish zem if ve get nussing?
I asked him if he wouldn't come over and just look at my goods, that I could save him money and give him a prettier line of patterns and neater made stuff than he was buying. "'Ach! Dat's de sonk dey all sink, said the old German. 'I'm sotisfite mit de line I haf. Sell 'em eesy und maig a goot brofit. Vat's de use uf chanching anyvay, alretty?
"The poor old marquis rose up, and clasping his hands, fell on his knees before Count Cagl Bah! I went by a different name then. Vat's in a name? Dat vich ve call a Rosicrucian by any other name vil smell as sveet. 'Monsieur, he said, 'I am old I am rich. I have five hundred thousand livres of rentes in Picardy. I have half as much in Artois.
I tells you vat here, vat's your name? if you glean off dot sidewalk goot, you shall haf preakfast and dinner, much as you eat, vidout von shent to pay. I don't care if der cook is cooking all day. I like your vat you call him? shpunk." "It's a bargain," said Dennis; "and if I can make a few more like it to-day, I shall be rich." "You may vel say dot.
Ravenslee observed a stir, a slight confusion, and from a screen of vivid-bosomed shirts a head protruded itself, round as to face and sleek as to hair. "Greetin's, Ikey!" said Spike, nodding to the head. "How's pork to-day?" "Aw vat you vant now, hey?" enquired the head. "Vat's the vord; now shpit it out!"
Demned if I don't think I've been a loser in pocket by knowing him, while as to me character, I'm very sure I'm the worse there." "Vat's de matter mit him?" "What's not the matter with him. If he's agrayable he's not natural, and if he's natural he's not agrayable. I don't pretind to be a saint.
"Vere's a man coming one of ve Bad Men. I must stay wiv you. My faver says a man must ALWAYS look after a girl. Jack will go home, and ven vey'll come and look for us. Vat's why I let him go."
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