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The gray leaped forward on the instant with so sudden a jump that he caught at his hat and missed it. Harry King stepped down and picked it up. "What ails your horse?" he asked, as he restored it to its owner. "Oh, not'in'. He lak yoomp a little."
Better you sell heem any vay. He yoomp by de cars all tam, und he no goot by buggy." "Well, you've got to take him by the buggy, if he is no good. I won't let Jake drive him around the trains, and he won't let Jake go with him out to Rigg's Corners, so you'll have to take the gray and the buggy and go."
"Yas, bot if you no lak I leek heem, ust you yoomp in und I lat heem run goot for two, t'ree mile. Dot feex heem all right." "I don't know about that. Sure you can hold him?" "Yas, I hol' heem so goot he break hee's yaw off, if he don't stop ven I tol' heem. Now, quvick. Whoa! Yoomp in."
The Swede began a sullen protest, but the proprietor shouted back to him, "You'll do this or leave," and walked in. Nels went then into the stable, smiling quietly. He was well satisfied with the arrangement. "Shake, you put dot big horse by de buggy. No. Tak' d'oder bridle. I don't drive heem mit ol' bridle; he yoomp too quvick yet. All tam yoomping, dot horse."
"Here ye go then, sir, excusin' me," said Bill, seizing the huge Dutchman by an arm. Rolfe took the other one, the injured one, and Houten laughed shakily and shook loose rather than suffer from the mate's determined grip. "Yoomp, with you den," he rumbled and mounted the rail.
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