‘John!’ interposed his wife, ‘don’t tease her.’

‘In where, miss?’

"She kept begging to go away. She`s a woman! `Take me away,` says she, `don`t let me perish with my little children! Folks,` she says, `are all gone, so why,` she says, `don`t we go?` And he began beating and pulling her about so!"

"I am," replied Isaac, in the same language, (for his traffic had rendered every tongue spoken in Britain familiar to him)---"and who art thou?"