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Updated: May 25, 2025
My appearance was the signal for a succession of howls and yah! yahs! from the assembled crowd. The women clustered around me and gave expression to their hate in kicks, pinches and jeers; even the dogs snapped at my heels.
"Oh, I don'd vos know abouid dot, Tim," was the reply. "I think dot I vill do some fighdin' myselufs alretty, ven ve get der retgoads at, yahs." "Maybe so," grinned Tim. "We wull wait an see how yez act whin we come face to face wid the ridcoats." "Oh, you'll both be brave soldiers, no doubt," said Tom. "But, you won't be any ahead of Dick, Ben and myself.
Half an hour is fully enough to walk round the mere walls of the city, but then there are considerable suburbs, consisting of huts and stone and mud houses. At the Sheikh's I met a merchant just returned from Kanou; I put some questions to him, who, thinking I wished to have every one answered in the affirmative, gave me his terrible "yahs" and "aywahs" to all and everything demanded.
Here another burst of loud, hearty "yah yah yahs succeeded; and Yaap had his laugh out before another word could be got out of him, when I put the question a third time. "Well, den, Masser Corny, sin' you will know, dis is my mind. Dis country is oncomparable wid our ole county sah.
"Yahs," said Cecil, using the locution which he always adopted when something subtle was said to him, "I dare say! I dare say!" "Well, then," Jim went on, "I have this matter of the atmosphere or associations under my own control." "Just so," said Cecil. "Clever conceit, Miss Trescott, isn't it, now?"
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