Winthrop had hardly time to think he did not look like an American, when his speech confirmed it.
"How-do-you-do ?" he said, using each word with a ceremony which shewed they were not denizens of his tongue.

"I am wanting to make some reserche in dis country, and I was directet here." Winthrop asked him in, and then when he was seated, asked him what he wanted.
"I am wishing to know if you could let me live wiz you a few days -- I am wanting to be busy in your mountains, about my affairs, and I just want to know if you can let me have a bed to sleep on at night, and a little somet'ing to eat -- I would be very much obliged and I would pay you whatever you please -- " "Mother," said Winthrop, "can you let this gentleman stay here a few days?
he has business in the mountains, he says, and wants to stop here ?" "I do not wish to be no trouble to no person," he said blandly.

"I was at a little house on de ozer side of de river, but I was told dere was no room for me, and I come to an ozer place and dey told me to come to dis place.

I will not trouble no person -- I only want a place to put my head while my feet are going all over." A moment's hesitation, and Mrs.Landholm agreed to this very moderate request; and Mr.Herder, as he gave his name, and his valise, were accommodated in the 'big bedroom.' This was the best room, occupying one corner of the front of the house, while the 'keeping-room' was at the other; a tiny entry-way, of hardly two square yards, lying between, with a door in each of three sides and a steep staircase in the fourth.
Winthrop presently came to ask if the stranger had had supper.
"I have not! But I will take anysing, what you please to give me." Mr.Herder did not belie his beginning.

He made himself much liked, both by the children and the grown people; and as he said, he gave as little trouble as possible.