Everything looked strange to me, and I couldn't raise my head.

After a time I made shift to turn it round, and saw old Jans sitting on a chest mending a jacket.

I called him, but my voice was so low I hardly seemed to hear it myself.
"'Ah, my leetle boy!' he said, 'I am glad to hear you speak again.

Two whole weeks you say nothing except talk nonsense.' "'Have I been ill ?' I asked.
"'You haf been vera bad,' he said.

'De captain meant to kill you, I haf no doubt, and he pretty near do it.