Then you are all very well educated.

I have known a pedlar talk in Greek and Hebrew as well as if they had been his mother-tongue.

And for honesty--I once had a servant, his name was Gregor Macgregor, I would have trusted him with untold gold." This eulogium of my native country gained my affections so strongly, that I believe I could have gone to death to serve the author; and Strap's eyes swam in tears.

At length, as we passed through a dark narrow lane, we perceived a public-house, which we entered, and found a man sitting by the fire, smoking a pipe, with a pint of purl before him.
Our new acquaintance asked us if ever we had drunk egg-flip?
To which question we answering in the negative, he assured us of a regale, and ordered a quart to be prepared, calling for pipes and tobacco at the same time.

We found this composition very palateable, and drank heartily; the conversation, which was introduced by the gentleman, turning upon the snares that young inexperienced people are exposed to in this metropolis.