an' he see sump'n', an' he say: 'Oh, 'e-lo—el-o Where you got that chile? ' I say: 'Ah—oh—ah! I thing mebby you lig own one, an' I buy 'im of a man what din' wan' no bebby with those purple eye an' bald hairs.' An' he as' me, 'What you pay?' Americans always as' what you pay. I say: ' Oh, lemme see. I thing, two yen an' two sen. Tha' 's too moach for bald bebby? ' What you thing? But tha' 's a time he saying: 'I bed you tha' 's a liar; an' you fooling among me.' Then he gitting angery, an' I hurry an' say, one las' time, 'Tha' 's right. I tole you liddle lie for a fun. I di'n' pay nawthing for him, aexcep'—sa-ay!—' Then I whisper a thing inside his ear, jus' a liddle thing, an' he see! Aha, ha, ha! Then he say once more, las' time,—ah, what you thing, Suzuki? "
But the girl would not diminish her pleasure by guessing.
"'Godamighty!' Aha, ha, ha!"
"Tha' 's all things you know?" questioned the maid, reproachfully, " an' all things you do? "
She had a right to feel that she had been defrauded out of a proper denouement.
"Ah-h-h-h! What would you have that
