"police-o! tief-man-o! neighbours-o! we done loss-o! police-o! . . ." there were at least five other voices besides the leader’s. . . . the silence that followed the thieves’ alarm vibrated horribly. jonathan all but begged their leader to speak again and be done with it. "my frien," said he at long last, "we don try our best for call dem but i tink say dem all done sleep-o . . . so wetin we go do now?" –"civil peace," chinua achebe which is the best translation of the dialect used in the last paragraph of this passage? "my friend . . . we tried our best to call them but i think they are all asleep . . . so what are we going to do now?" "my friend . . . we did not try to call them because we are sleepy . . . where should we go now?" "my friend . . . we want to try our best to call them, but i think they said they are sleeping . . . so what should we do now?"
