“Oh, uncle, think what the Dutchman said when he whipped his sulky son,—Hans, you might as coot say ‘tamn’ as tink ‘tamn!’”
“Drusil, I am thinking ‘tamn’ very intently, ever since I came on shore. Now, where the deuce are the porters? Now, if this were New York, one would be deafened by them,” growled the General, showing himself in front.
His grievance was removed, and he was “deafened by them” and others immediately.
“Porter, sir?”
“Cab, sir?”
“Fly, sir?”
“Queen’s hotel?”
“Adelphi?”
“Star-and-Garter?”
“Times, sir?”