The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-15
A LITTLE TALK.
Jack Has 8 Desperate Struggle with the
 English Language.

Jack Has Desperate Struggle with the
 English Language.
 "What did you say?" asked MT. Trusty, turning to look at his nephew, as Jack stood in the doorway.
 '1 said I didn't know, uncle," an- swered the boy.
 "Oh, no, Jack; what you said was: 'Id'n know and this is the way that you often say things. You must re- member that it is the French words that go skating along in one grand sweep. We English-speaking nations walk off our words one step at time. !"
 "You mean we ought to, uncleP"
 "Yes, that is exactly what mean" laughed the other. Seriously, Jack, don't slur and mispronounce your words. The other day I heard Nat Williams asking you something, and you answered him: I don't cab out it. Now, what you meant by 'cabbing out you know best yourself.
 ''I meant 1 didn't care about it, what ever it was," cried the boy.
 'sIs it possible?" exclaimed Mir. Trusty; ''then why didn't you say SOP"
 'I did, or something that meant that. But I wanted to ask you something very particular this morning. May go out camping with some of the fellows this week?"
 "When do you want to goP"
 "Sat day"
 ''I don't know any such day"
 Jack opened his eyes moment; then he answered, demurely: ''It's the last day of the week, you know. And then he corrected his slovenly way of saying the word. And bimeby some more fellows are coming" he added.
 "When did you say?"
 By and by-uncle, you're hard on mer'
 Do you remember, Jack, the day that we went to inquire for my old chum, how somebody came to the door, and we looked at her first and doubted whether she was lady or servant, she looked so very common, although she was almost too simply dressed for the latter? Then she spoke, and we knew at once she was lady, not from what she said, because she only answered our questions, but from the way in which she said it; her voice was trained, and she pronounced her words so well. Do you remember, as we went down the steps, asked you what you thought of her, and you said that she was very polite? could see that you felt the charm, although you could not quite tell what it was"
 But it's different" returned Jack. "I'm a boy, you know, and I don't want the llars-fellows-to call me an old duffer or muff.'
 ''Oh, that's it! So, you are obliged to say cab out and Sat day and 'bimeby,' and things like these?''
 Jack colored, and then he laughed. "I don't believe they'd notice any way" he said. Do 1 talk much like that?"
 "A good deal. And when you come to making after-dinner speeches, you will wish that you hadn't this habit to break up."
 "After-dinner speechesP" echoed Jack.
 "It was only last week." pursued Mir Trusty, ''that I saw boy throw down a newspaper with the assertion that some day he was going into public life"
 That was about election time," cor rected the boy. But, uncle, I don't cab-care about-that now. want to know about the camping out"
 "That's a week off, and this is now"
 "Oh, no, not'z much ga week off"
 "Jack, what is 'zmuch 'za'?''
 ''AS much aS Gr' returned the boy, with sigh of despair.
 "Ah, yes; now I understand. You are in hurry to have the week go by, and so you hurried your words as if you would hurry the sun?"
 That's so," said Jack, laughing; "you know I always talk nicely when Pm not in hurry"
 But then you usually are in a hurry"
 "Well, uncle, it's such busy world. One thing tumbles on top of another so, and that the reason, depend upon it."
 "And then, you see,'' returned MT. Trusty, smiling, "you always get on so much faster in this way just as you have done to-day in finding out about the camping. Do you remember the old proverb: The longest way round is the shortest way homep' You thought the day that you tried the short cut through the bog that you would never forget it. Now, can't you see that this | kind of talk is the short cut through | the bogP It is sort of thing that it is l