I zay you tun sompin.

If you a'n't tun nodin den, vy don't you dell me vot it is dat you has tun?
Hey ?" [Illustration: GOTTLIEB.] All this time August found that it was getting harder and harder to tell his father the real state of the case.

But the old man, seeing that he prevailed nothing, took a cajoling tone.
"Koom, August, mine knabe, ton't shtand dare leig a vool.

Vot tit Anterson zay ven he shent you avay ?" "He said that I'd been seen a-talking to his daughter, Jule Anderson." "Vell, you nebber said no hoorm doo Shule, tid you?
If I dought you said vot you zhoodn't zay doo Shule, I vood shust drash you on der shpot! Tid you gwarl mit Shule, already ?" "Quarrel with Jule! She's the last person in the world I'd think of quarreling with.

She's as good as--" "Oh! you pe in lieb mit Shule! You vool, you! Is dat all dat I raise you vor?
I dells you, unt dells you, unt _dells_ you to sprach nodin put Deutsche, unt to marry a kood Deutsche vrau vot kood sprach mit you, unt now you koes right shtraight off unt kits knee-teep in lieb mit a vool of a Yangee kirl! You doo ant pe doornt off!" August's countenance brightened.