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Erema

CHAPTER XV
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Miss Rema, give a name to him.

All the thundering nuggets has thundering names." "Then this shall be called 'Uncle Sam,'" I answered, "because he is the largest and the best of all." "It shall stand, miss," cried Martin, who was in great spirits, and seemed to have bettered himself forever.

"You could not have given it a finer name, miss, if you had considered for a century.

Uncle Sam is the name of our glorious race, from the kindness of our natur'.

Every body's uncle we are now, in vartue of superior knowledge, and freedom, and giving of general advice, and stickin' to all the world, or all the good of it.


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