The "Eye-talians," as she termed them, lived above, while the Gibbonses rented the ground floor.

I did not know that you were the I-talians."

" "But, my dear," protested the subject of criticism, "they'd listen better an' grin less if I didn't sling words about like one o' these here Eye-talians shovelin' dirt.

Did you understand the matter in dispute between the two Italians, brave Etooelle?" "I heerd their Eye-talian jabber," answered Ithuel; "but supposed it was all about saints' days and eating fish.

Squire thinks a heap of ye-our teaching, as I he-ear, specially ye-our teaching of the eye-talian tongue.

"That was given to me in New York, sir," said he, "by a Dago, one of these I-talians.