'"Trink ten tousand tevils! I will go to dinner," said Reingelder, und
he put her afay und it vas very red mit emotion.

'We lifed upon soup, horse-flesh, und beans for dinner, but before we
vas eaten der soup, Reingelder he haf hold of his arm und cry, "It is
genumben to der clavicle. I am a dead man; und Yates he haf lied in
brint!"

'I dell you it vas most sad, for der symbtoms dot came vas all dose of
strychnine. He vas doubled into big knots, und den undoubled, und den
redoubled mooch worse dan pefore, und he frothed. I vas mit him, saying,
"Reingelder, dost dou know me?" but he himself, der inward gonsciousness
part, was peyond knowledge, und so I know he vas not in bain. Den he
wrop himself oop in von dremendous knot und den he died--all alone mit
me in Uraguay. I was sorry, for I lofed Reingelder, und I puried him,
und den I took der coral-shnake--dot Sherman Flag--so bad und
dreacherous und I bickled him alife.

'So I got him: und so I lost Reingelder.'




THE WANDERING JEW
[Footnote: Copyright, 1891, by Macmillan & Co.]


'If you go once round the world in an easterly direction, you gain one
day,' said the men of science to John Hay. In after years John Hay went