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"This is safer navigation for an officer of thy draught of water, than running about the bay, in a periagua. What may be the longitude, and where-a-way did you part company from the consorts?" "Sair, I valk in de vood for de plaisir, and I go on de bay for de parbleu, non!
"Ye vood, ye liar, presshus shoon if ye 'ad arf a shance, I bet, s'help me!" shouted out the other man, who, from his speech, was evidently a Hebrew and a creditor. "Ye're von tarn sheet, dat's vot ye vas, a bloomin' corpse swindler, vot sheets de living, s'help me, and rops ze dead! I shpit upon ye, I does!"
"If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug! you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots! you vood get der boots.
In a few minutes they emerged from the bushes and came out upon the bank of the river, which at that part was high and precipitous, with few trees, but a considerable quantity of underwood on the slopes. "Are you sure, friend, that a bear has been seen by you?" inquired the artist. "Oui; most positavly sure, sair. Ha! an' here be him's fut encore. I have lose him in de vood.
The man looked alarmed, and began a speech: "Sare, I cannot let dem go vidout" but a bright thought struck me, and I interrupted "Sir! don't sir me. Take off the boots, fellow, and, hark ye, when you speak to a nobleman, don't say Sir." "A hundert tousand pardons, my lort," says he: "if I had known you were a lort, I vood never have called you Sir. Vat name shall I put down in my books?"
I saw a small cask full of 'platina del Pinto', which she told me she could transmute into gold when she pleased. It had been given her by M. Vood himself in 1743. She shewed me the same metal in four phials.
"I didn't answer his question directly, but I said, 'Now, look here, Brother Mondheimer, suppose a man were to come into your store and want to buy a good suit of clothes. How much profit would you make? "'Aboud fife tollars, said he. "'Well, how long would you, yourself, spend on that man, trying to make a sale with him? "'Vell, I vood nod led him go until I solt him, said he.
'Happened! said he, 'why, mammy had a coople of little Welsh keawes, that gi'en milk enough to fill all our bellies; mammy's, and mine, and Dick's here, and my two little sisters' at hoam: Yesterday the squire seized the keawes for rent, God rot'un! Mammy's gone to bed sick and sulky; my two sisters be crying at hoam vor vood; and Dick and I be come hither to pick haws and bullies.
Shust hear der man speak foolishness! Gif me a hand, Bill, und I vill get up und be hung." He crawled stiffly to his feet and looked about him. "Herr Gott! listen to der man! He vood hang me! Ho! ho! ho! I tank not! Yes, I tank not!" "And I tank yes, you swab," Lawson spoke up mockingly, at the same time cutting a sled-lashing and coiling it up with ominous care.
"Oh, but I can't take your rosary; that's absurd!" "You cannot take a few leedle pieces of vood from your friend? Vhy, dthose leedle voods are only dthe dthe dthe how you say? bones off dthe olive." I laugh till I ache. "Bones of the olive!" I almost roll off the lumber in a spasm of merriment. Mrs.
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