"Well, one on 'em, that was a Duke, as I found out
afterwards, said 'O yees, Saar, we spoked English too.'

"'Lawful heart!' sais I, 'what's the joke?'

"'Why,' sais he, 'look there, Sare.' And then they larfed
agin, ready to split; and sore enough, no sooner had the
Leftenant layed down to drink, than the Prince's hoss
kneeled down, and put his head jist over his neck, and
began to drink too. Well, the officer couldn't get up
for the hoss, and he couldn't keep his face out of the
water for the hoss, and he couldn't drink for the hoss,
and he was almost choked to death, and as black in the
face as your hat. And the Prince and the officers larfed
so, they couldn't help him, if they was to die for it.

"Sais I to myself, 'A joke is a joke, if it tante carried
too far, but this critter win be strangled, as sure as
a gun, if he lays here splutterin' this way much longer.'
So I jist gives the hoss a dab in the mouth, and made
him git up; and then sais I, 'Prince,' sais I, for I
know'd him by his beard, he had one exactly like one of
the old saint's heads in an Eyetalian pictur, all dressed
to a pint, so sais I, 'Prince,' and a plaguy handsum man
he is too, and as full of fun as a kitten, so sais I,
'Prince,' and what's better, all his officers seemed
plaguy proud and fond of him too; so sais I, 'Prince,
voila le condition of one colonist, which,' sais I,
'Prince, means in English, that leftenant is jist like