[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER II 19/24
I'll try him agin. "So I sais to him, 'He looks,' sais I, 'as if he'd trot a considerable good stick, that horse,' sais I, 'I guess he is a goer.' "Y' mae, ye un trotter da,' sais he. "'Creation!' sais I, 'if this don't beat gineral trainin'.
I have heerd in my time, broken French, broken Scotch, broken Irish, broken Yankee, broken Nigger, and broken Indgin; but I have hearn two pure gene_wine_ languages to-day, and no mistake, rael rook, and rael Britton, and I don't exactly know which I like wus.
It's no use to stand talkin' to this critter.
Good-bye,' sais I. "Now what do you think he said? Why, you would suppose he'd say good-bye too, wouldn't you? Well, he didn't, nor nothin' like it, but he jist ups, and sais, 'Forwelloaugh,' he did, upon my soul.
I never felt so stumpt afore in all my life.
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