"I can't talk their lingo," returned Dalzell plaintively.
"Nor can I speak much of it, either," admitted Dave.
"Can you speak any Italian?"
"Only a little, and very badly at that."
"Where did you learn Italian?" demanded Danny Grin.
"From an Italian-American cook on board our ship," Darrin explained.
"Whew! You must have done that while I was asleep," Dalzell complained.
"I don't know enough Italian to carry me very far," laughed Darrin. "Perhaps between two and three hundred useful words, and some of the parts of a few verbs. Let me see just what you thought you were ordering."
Dan held out a somewhat soiled bill of fare on which the names of the dishes were printed in Italian and English.
"I tried to pronounce the Italian words right," Dan went on, with a grimace.