Dese ere not schouts, as you faind, but jonkers on a vrolyk; and if dey'd chanshed to keel de vrow Sheppard's pet lamb, dey'd have done her a servish, by shaving it from dat unpleasant complaint, de hempen fever, with which its laatter days are threatened, and of which its poor vader died.

Myn Got! haanging runs in some families, Muntmeester.

It's hereditary, like de jigt, vat you call it--gout--haw! haw!" "If the child _is_ destined to the gibbet, Van Galgebrok," replied the Master, joining in the laugh, "it'll never be choked by a footman's cravat, that's certain; but, in regard to going back empty-handed," continued he, altering his tone, and assuming a dignified air, "it's quite out of the question.

With Baptist Kettleby, to engage in a matter is to go through with it.

Besides, this is an affair which no one but myself can settle.