“Didn’t Oi tell yez! It’s shtuck she is alriddy.”
Frank laughed carelessly.
“I didn’t think he could hear me,” said the spinster; “but it was true, anyhow. He’s got on a white man’s clothes, but that don’t make him like a white man.”
“Yaw!” put in Hans Dunnerwust, getting nearer Miss Abigail; “dot peen so, you pet.”
The old maid gave him a scornful look.
“What do you know about it!” she exclaimed.
“Oxcuse me,” said the Dutch boy. “You took mein vord for dot.”
“I wouldn’t take your word for anything,” sniffed Miss Abigail, as she turned away.
Barney and Ephraim chuckled, and Hans looked rather crestfallen, shaking his head and muttering:
“Vale, she vos a pird!”