But coming to examine this, one found it to be nothing more nor less than the smoke of the kitchen chimney, busy with a quiet roasting job.
This shows how clear the air was; but a thousand times as much could never tell how clear our spirits were.

Nobody made any "demonstration," or cut any frolicsome capers, or even said any thing exuberant.

The steadfast brooding breed of England, which despises antics, was present in us all, and strengthened by a soil whose native growth is peril, chance, and marvel.

And so we nodded at one another, and I ran over and courtesied to Uncle Sam, and he took me to him.
"You have been a dear good child," he said, as he rose, and looked over my head at Firm.

"My own granddarter, if such there had been, could not have done more to comfort me, nor half so much, for aught I know.