Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1904-10-20
DIDN'T SPEAK DUTCH.

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toIL. ~ conIdn,, .nsak Engl;sh every mile
,h.t we ,rsxsr..d We rere in lots of
-. - Fnxl,nd ube,e we actually
ronId,,, u,dsrs,,nd word ,.e neonle aid
Although .bsv were spnuo.ed 10 he speaking
FrgI;.5 snd INV Moor DOR of a testv nus.
h.nJ c.ma ne.r Getting ;oto 6.,,cuH. with
sona a, he rs.,sur.nt folks and b,rhers
,nd trade.neonle in Yorkshire becluse thew
hr;disd u,, ,nd seerr.d N he bufTv whom he
na, h.;ra lii 20 ,,nJsr.,,nd .be n.toi, tbat
,bsv hsl,sve !. Enol;.b ssIsd thsm wbv
,bsy d;dn', .ne,L the LANGUAGE of their
ling
"Rut !, the resIlv..nd.,rulv fore;gn coun.
tries our difficulties were beyoud belief.
Neither of US knows a word Of any other
language hut Engli,b Now being won.
an and therefore a reasoning being am
willing to concede that there are several
languages spoken on the globe beside, Eng.
'lish. and 10 admit the right of the reo-'e
who are born and raised 10 these lang ages
10 sneak them in their own lands. But my
husband. being a man. and a man OF ex-
clusiyely English .peecb. became more and
more ferociou, over the languages Of the
people n. we progressed ON the tour. IL
didn't make any difference where we were.
whether in the Tyrol or by the Italian
lakes. he seemed 10 take il as a personal
affront when the people addressed him in
their own tongues. and he became even
more angry when he inadvertently asked
one of them a question and received only
shake of the head in reply
"'The internal imbecilesp he was ex.
.laimiuQ To me all over Europe. how i'm the
Iickens do they expeet white man TO talk
such idiotic rubbish as thatV
"'But.' I would expostul.te. they are
talking the only language they know
"'Weu. that's the reason / call 'em i'm.
5scilesp he would hotly retort.
But wopld start IN say when no
would int.rrunt me with sucb an outhreaL
a. th;.
+" @Thsrs ,rs M "a. .nds and br,. about
n. ,b.v tall liLe a lot of nonkev.-the
idea of man who talks English that's
fairly decent AT any rate not being able TO
get a word of sense out of a single one of
about Q O1O OOO ALLEGED human beings that
hes addressed necessary questions TO all
over continent that's sonnosed N he
civilized
"And there smoke the ayer,0. American
man abroad for All the world IN meyer
forget the morning we first arrived in Am.
,terdam We started ont early 10 explore
and my husband became more gloomy and
morose every step we took over the utter
inability of any OF the people we met to
Understand us. suppose the Dutch people
are the least accomplished linguists in Eu-
repeat least they struck us as being so.
We didn't strike single individual in Am
terdam that could speak English. Along
in the afternoon we became hungry and de.
cided to hunt up some restaurant for lunch.
con instead OF returning to the hotel. So
my husband began asking everybody we met
where there was good restaurant. They
all stared yacantly at him and shook their
heads with awful solemnity without word
and passed on, many Of them turning about
to look after us as II they considered us
escaped insane folks
"'Im going to get one Of these Dutch
baboons to give me some kind Of an intelli
yible reply to civil question if have to
stay right here on the streets OF Amster-
dam for 1900 years. he said to me, hoarsely,
and with such utter unreasonableness that
! couldn't for the life OF me have helped
throwing my head back right there and
'aughing at him-whieh didn't tend to in
crease his cheertulness particle, as you
may imagine.
Finally he went up TO gendarme-one
II those funny.looking little squatty male
persons with the exAggeratedly ferocious
expression of countenance he fairly
bawled in the astonished gendarme's teeth:
"'Say, my adipose friend Of the Broad.
way squad. can you and will you tell me
-here can find place in this burg where
two pilgrims can get a bite and a sup of
something ft to eat and to drink
"He asked this ouest;on as say in an
,..pedinolv loud tome of voice observed |
.b,t most travelling American mo, .hou,oJ |
,beir question. Al foreigner, az II ,nera
,olum. Of lnng mower wopld suffice 10 |
bridge the conversatioral o,lf th., vsx,n.
,etween .ro nersons of different not;oraT |
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