“Oh! is dot so? Well, dot's too bad. And so you was a half-orphan, yes?”
“No, sir; my mother is dead, too.”
“You don't say so! Well, my kracious! Well, den you was a whole orphan, ain't you? Well, who you live with?”
“I live with my uncle, sir—Judge Brace.”
“Oh! so your uncle was a judge. Well, dot's grand. Well, you go to school, I suppose, hey?”
“No, sir; I don't go to school.”
“You don't go to school? Oh! then, maybe you was in business already, yes.”
“O, no, sir! I'm not in business.”
“You don't go to school, and you wasn't in business; well, what you do mit yourself all day long, hey?”
“I play.”