Part 30 (1/2)
”Den vhere mine vheat is?”
”Now look here, Hans; that wheat is yours, is it?”
”Yaw, yaw.”
”And the donkeys are yours, eh?”
”Yaw, yaw.”
”And the wheat's been yours all the time, has it?”
”Yaw, yaw.”
”Well, so have the donkeys. I took 'em out of your pasture in the first place. Now what have you got to complain of?”
The Dutchman reflected all over his head with' his forefinger-nail.
”Gomblain? I no gomblain ven it is all right. I zee now I vos made a mistaken. Coom, dake a drinks.”
Jo left the animals standing, and went inside, where they pledged one another in br.i.m.m.i.n.g mugs of beer. Then taking Hans by the hand,
”I am sorry,” said he, ”we can't trade. Perhaps some other day you will be more reasonable. Good bye!”
And Joseph departed leading away the donkeys!
Hans stood for some moments gazing after him with a complacent smile making his fat face ridiculous. Then turning to his mill-stones, he shook his head with an air of intense self-satisfaction:
”Py donner! Dot Yo Garfey bees a geen, shmard yockey, but he gonnot spiel me svoppin' yacka.s.ses!”
DR. DEADWOOD, I PRESUME.
My name is Shandy, and this is the record of my Sentimental Journey.
Mr. Ames Jordan Gannett, proprietor's son of the ”York----,” with which paper I am connected by marriage, sent me a post-card in a sealed envelope, asking me to call at a well-known restaurant in Regent Street. I was then at a well-known restaurant in Houndsditch. I put on my worst and only hat, and went. I found Mr. Gannett, at dinner, eating pease with his knife, in the manner of his countrymen.
He opened the conversation, characteristically, thus:
”Where's Dr. Deadwood?”
After several ineffectual guesses I had a happy thought. I asked him:
”Am I my brother's bar-keeper?”
Mr. Gannett pondered deeply, with his forefinger alongside his nose.
Finally he replied: