" "I vish," remarked Henri after a pause"I vish I could git de vampum belt de leetle chief had on.

" "I vish," remarked Henri after a pause"I vish I could git de vampum belt de leetle chief had on.

When the water-snake got this reply he raised his head a whole foot from the ground, and hissed furiously: "Vish vash!

I vish you may go to de devil yourself you dem yankee-doo-dell, and I vill go and drown myself, tout de suite, right avay.

I am von lame duck, and I shall vaddle across de gran ocean for Paris, vish is de only valuarble vatare privalege dat is left me à present!" Poor Poopoo was as good as his word.

" "You vish salvage, eh!

The book is designed to be suggestive and stimulating, to leave the reader with scant information on some points, to make him (as Mr. Samuel Weller says) "vish there wos more," and to show him how to go on by himself.

I vish there vas a kilt in the Lane you would have it for nothing!"

Not de big book and no single rhymeSair, I do not vish to say vat is penible, mais it is not one book widout rhyme; it was not écrit on de sea.

Oui, Sair; it teach all, un Monsieur vish to know.