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Updated: June 2, 2025
An' all those funny helmets like toadstools popped up in the air an' somebody gave a yell an' the light went out an' the damn grenade went off. Then I let 'em have the rest of 'em an' went away 'cause one o' 'em was still moanin'-like. It was about that time they let their barrage down on us and I got mine." "The Yanks are havin' a hell of a time, Parley voo?
His weak face wore glasses of the same type as the hippopotamus', but without a huge black ribbon. I decided to give him a tremor; and said to the hippo "Un peu, Monsieur," at which the little thing looked sickly. The hippopotamus benevolently remarked "Voo parlez bien," and his glasses fell off. He turned to the watchful planton: "Voo poovez aller. Je vooz appelerai."
His society is chiefly among young lads belonging to his former profession. He knows the best wine to be had at each tavern or cafe, and the waiters treat him with much respectful familiarity. He knows the names of every one of them; and shouts out, "Send Markwell here!" or, "Tell Cuttriss to give us a bottle of the yellow seal!" or, "Dizzy voo, Monsure Borrel, noo donny shampang frappy," etc.
The amount of their lingo that kid taught me 'We, we' and 'Bong swot' and 'Commong voo potty we' and all and I taught him English. You should have heard that nipper say ''Arf a mo', old un! It was a treat. "Then one day we got surprised. There was about a dozen of us in the village, and two or three hundred Germans came down on us early one morning. They got us; no help for 'it.
We could not quite make out the grounds of it, except that the boatswain himself had learned one or two words of what he called parly voo when he was in service at the boys' school, and he was jealously careful of the importance which his shreds and scraps of education gave him in the eyes of the ordinary uneducated seaman.
He told me it cost him $18,000 to furnish his apartment, and I believe it. "'He's got $40,000 worth of pictures in one room, and $20,000 worth of curios and antiques in another. His name's Scudder, and he's 45, and taking lessons on the piano and 15,000 barrels of oil a day out of his wells. "'All right, says I. 'Preliminary canter satisfactory. But, kay vooly, voo?
"Carillonnette!" he called out joyously. "Maryette! C’est je!" The girl, astonished, turned her head, and he spurred forward on his wall-eyed mount, evincing cordial symptoms of pleasure in the encounter. "Wee, wee!" he cried. "Je voolay veneer avec voo!"
"'O, but I'm in airnest, says the captain; 'and do you tell me, Paddy, says he, 'that you spake Frinch? "'Parly voo frongsay, says I. "'By gor, that bangs Banagher, and all the world knows Banagher bangs the divil, I never met the likes o' you, Paddy, says he, 'pull away, boys, and put Paddy ashore, and maybe we won't get a good bellyful before long.
"O the Yanks are having the hell of a time, Parley voo?" They pounded their bottles on the table in time to the song. "It's a good job," the top sergeant said, suddenly interrupting the song. "You needn't worry about that, fellers. I saw to it that we got a good job.... And about getting to the front, you needn't worry about that.
"Well, sir, with that, throth, they stared at me twice worse nor ever, and faith I began to think that maybe the captain was wrong, and that it was not France at all at all; and so says I, 'I beg pardon, sir, says I, to a fine ould man, with a head of hair as white as silver, 'maybe I'm under a mistake, says I, 'but I thought I was in France, sir: aren't you furriners? says I, 'Parly voo frongsay?"
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