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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Vot should I do vith it? I've had enuff of the 'sponsibility. Put it up in a 'ankerchiff, and p'r'aps ven master gets married, and 'as a babby vots teethin', he vil say, 'Thank ye, Beck, for your curril. Vould not that make us proud, mammy?"
Better let me go in and show 'em haow to pitch." "Go avay pack and sit down," advised Hans derisively. "You vould dood a lot uf goot uf you vould pitch, vouldn't you!" "If I couldn't do better than yeou're doing naow, I'd never play another game of baseball!" retorted Gallup. "He's envious," said Sparkfair. "Don't listen to him. I know you'll strike me out. You can't help it."
Fortunately these branches broke its fall so that it arose unhurt, bounded into a bush, still squeaking with alarm, and made after its friends. "Why did you not shoot it, professor?" asked Nigel, laughing as much at Verkimier's grave expression as at the little monkey's behaviour. "Vy did I not shot it?" echoed the professor. "I vould as soon shot a baby.
"His uncle ought to be in prison this minute." "Have the authorities heard anything of Merrick?" asked Songbird. "Not a thing." "I dink me dot feller has skipped to Europe alretty," vouchsafed Hans Mueller. "He vould peen afraid to stay py der United States in, yah!" And the German boy shook his head wisely.
"And now for Masie's idea, Mr. Kling." "Oh, dere is someting else, eh? I tought dere vould be ven you puts your two noddles togedder Vell, vot is dot all about, eh?" "She is to have a birthday. She will be eleven years old next Saturday." "By Jeminy, yes, dot's so! I forgot dot, Masie. Yes, it comes on de tventy-fust. Vy you don't tell me before, little Beesvings?"
At length he gave me a signal that he wished to communicate something to me in private, and I followed him to the door. "I thought that I vould come and give ye a bit of news, 'cos ye alvays treated me vell," he said, in a low whisper, and after a careful glance around to see if there were listeners near at hand. I acknowledged the remark, and he continued:
"Bot you have bought ze kilt, ze Highland hat, ze brogue shoes." "I had them made to your measurements." The Baron impetuously embraced his thoughtful friend. Then again his smile died away. "Bot, Bonker, my voice! Zey tell me I haf nozing zat you vould call qvite an accent; bot a foreigner one does regognize him, eh?" "I shall explain that in a sentence.
"Leave me with the dead body of my child; after she is buried you can do as you please with me." "I knows better tan to do dat," observed Mr. Swartz, "by to-morrow morning you vould be a pretty far avay from Shackson." "I will not move from this cabin an inch further than to the burial ground," replied Mrs.
You vill eat mit us at the long table," he waved his hand indefinitely toward the dining-room, "at 12:30, and then I valk mit you over py der Obera House, und show you vat der is to be done mit dot scenery und dem trunks. Mein Gott! it vos vonderful dot muscles vot you haf got you vould make a great Davy Crockett ven I learns you de business, mein frient."
"Der night vas goot," he said to Mildred, "und I vill gif you von leedle glimpse oil hefen if you vould like him." The poor girl felt that she certainly needed a glimpse of something bright and reassuring, and wrapping herself warmly she followed her quaint friend to the roof. Roger grew taciturn as he watched the dim outline of her form and her white, upturned face.
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