The effect was very fine.
"This is dreadful!" said Corny.

"She ought to give up this pepper-pod business right away.

If I could only talk to her, I'd make her understand.

But I must go get somebody for an interpreter." And she ran off to one of the neighboring huts.
"If this thing works," said Rectus, "we ought to hire a regular interpreter." "It wont do to have too many paid officials," said I, "but we'll see about that." Corny soon returned with a pleasant-faced woman, who undertook to superintend our conversation with the queen.
"What's her name--to begin with ?" asked Corny, of the woman.
"Her African name is Poqua-dilla, but here they call her Jane Henderson, when they talk of her.

She knows that name, too.