EnterGustaffe, withLorrenna,AliceandKnickerbocker.
EnterGustaffe, withLorrenna,AliceandKnickerbocker.
Lor.Oh my dawdy—my gooter olter dawdy!
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Rip.Bisht du now my duchter? Luss mich dich now amohl recht aw gooka! Ha, ha, doh will ich awer aw de krenk krega wann du net g’woxa bisht sidder os ich dich ’s letsht mohl g’sana hob—yusht eb ich nuf in der barrick gonga bin geshter owet! Awer now, wær is don des doh?
Alice.Ei, bruder!
Rip.Alice, by jinks, geb mer de hond! [Shakes cordially.] Un wær is des?
Alice.Des? Des is der Knickerbocker, my mon.
Rip.Ei Knick, is sell miglich? [Shakes hands.] De Alice is so grose un so dick os we ’n booter fos—un awer wo is don my klanes boovelly?
Knick.Ar is aw um der waig—doh coom’d er?
EnterRip van Winkle, Jr.,R. 1 E.
EnterRip van Winkle, Jr.,R. 1 E.
Rip.Un is des doh now ’s bubbaly? Coom, Rippy, du shmarts hoondly—ich bin di dawdy! Des beat now olles—du’t ’s now net?
Knick.Awer now sawg uns, Rip, wo der bettle warsht all de letshty tzwansich yohr? Geb uns now all de particulars fun dina travels.
Rip.Ich will, ich will—ich sawg eich now olles os ich wase un sell is os ich evva now doh bin—war de gons letsht naucht im barrick un hob a while g’shlofa, un we ich den morya rooner cooma bin ins shteddle is mer ’s fore cooma os olles ferennert wær un os de leit im sin hetta all tzurick tzu gæ uf mich. Un sell is now olles os ich wase, un now, luss uns amohl de drinks nemma mitnonner, uh doh gaits for uns all tzum deifel, for de ladies un de gentlemenner un de boova un de maid un all de fomelias un g’sundheit un long’s lava.