Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1912 — DIDN’T SAVEY OWN LANGUAGE [ARTICLE]

DIDN’T SAVEY OWN LANGUAGE

Filipino Draws Down on Hla Head Indignation of Amateur In* terpreter. A party of tourist* In a small Filipino villagb were trying to make the native driver of a bull cart understand that they wished their baggage transferred from the bungalow to the railway station at two o’clock in the afternoon. But the native did not seem to comprehend either their gestures or their hybrid language. Standing near the tourists was a recruit of the United States army, who had been in the "Islands” Just a month and was extremely proud of the few words of “Hog Spanish” that he had learned. So he offered his services as interpreter. “Say, hombre,” said he Impressively to the Filipino, “when the clock on that steeple yonder strikes two, ‘dingding,* you get your bull cart, ‘moomoo,* and carry these trunks to the station, “toot-toot,* Savey?" “No sabe," solemnly replied the native. "What-at!” roared the interpreter. "Do you mean to tell me that you don’t understand your own language?" —Everybody’s.