They then entered into discourse with each other in the same strange tongue which had already puzzled me.

At length the man looked me in the face, and said, somewhat hesitatingly, "So you are not one of them there, after all ?" _Myself_.

One of them there?
I don't know what you mean.
_Man_.

Why, we have been thinking you were a goblin--a devilkin! However, I see how it is; you are a sapengro, a chap who catches snakes, and plays tricks with them! Well, it comes very nearly to the same thing; and if you please to list with us, and bear us pleasant company, we shall be glad of you.

I'd take my oath upon it that we might make a mort of money by you and that sap, and the tricks it could do; and, as you seem fly to everything, I shouldn't wonder if you would make a prime hand at telling fortunes.
"I shouldn't wonder," said I.
_Man_.