“Anything wrong, Smith?” asked Tom Gray anxiously.
“Les. Bang, bang!”
“You mean bing, bing, don’t you?” cut in Stacy.
“Me savvy bang, bang!” returned the guide.
“Oh, let it go at that,” urged Hippy. “It doesn’t make much difference either way, whether it is ‘bang, bang’ or ‘bing, bing’!”
“Me savvy boom, boom, too,” added Woo.
“No, no. You mean bang, bang!” insisted Chunky.
“For goodness sake, give the poor fellow a chance,” begged Elfreda laughingly. “You will get him so befuddled that he will not know what he means. Woo, what is the trouble? Have you seen strangers about?”
The guide’s queue bobbed vigorously, as he pointed to a ridge on the other side of the canyon.
“Me savvy man there. Me savvy boom, boom! Bang, bang!”