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But, Jasper, warn't it beautiful?"
"What, Joe?"
"Why, to see the doctor tackle the lingo. Beautiful, I culls it; but
there, he's a scholard, and no mistake, and 'tain't no good for to
say he ain't. Not as ever I've heerd it said."
"But, Joe, the man didn't seem to understand him."
"Durn all furriners, say I; they be so cursed pigheaded. Understand?
I'll go bail he understood fast enough."
Joe's opinions coincided so fatally with my certainty that I held my
tongue.
"A dweller in--what did he call the spot, Jasper?"
"Mesopotamia."
"Well, I can't azacly say as I've seen any from them parts, but they
be all of a piece. Thicky chap warn't in the way when prettiness was
sarved out, anyhow. Of all the cut-throat chaps as ever I see--Mark
my words, 'tain't no music as he's come after."
This seemed so indisputable that I did not venture to contradict it.
"I bain't clear about thicky wreck. Likely as not 'twas the one I
seed all yesterday tacking about: and if so be as I be right, a
pretty lot of lubbers she must have had aboard.


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