Looking sternly at the two, he asked, in a threatening voice: "Which of you put dat powder in mine meerschaum, eh?
which of you done dat, eh ?" Neither answered, except by hanging their heads and looking at their bare feet.
"I axes you once more, and dis is de last time." Each now protested that it was not himself but the other, so that if there really were but one culprit, Hans had no means of determining.
Under the circumstances, he concluded the safest plan was to believe both guilty.

Accordingly he made a sudden dash and commenced whacking them soundly with the stick he held in his hand.

They yelled, kicked, and screamed; and squirming themselves loose, scampered quickly away from their irate instructor.
"Dat meerschaum can't be fixed," he soliloquized, taking the bare stem out of his mouth and looking sorrowfully at it.

"'Cause dere ishn't anything to fix it mit.

It ish wonderful what mischief gets into dem boys; dere ain't no time when dey ain't doin' notting what dey hadn't not ought to--all de times just de same way, while I toils myself to death to educate dem and bring 'em up in de way apout which dey ought to go." Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock being in the habit of frequently indulging in the use of tobacco, her husband was not deprived entirely of his solace.