Heavens and airth, we'd a chawed him right up! "No, there never was an officer among you, that had any thing to brag of about us but one, and he wasn't a Britisher--he was a despisable Blue-nose colonist boy of Halifax.

When his captain was took below wounded, he was leftenant, so he jist ups and takes command o' the Shannon, and fit like a tiger and took our splendid frigate the Chesapeake, and that was sumthing to brag on.

And what did he get for it?
Why colony sarce, half-pay, and leave to make room for Englishers to go over his head; and here is a lyin' false monument, erected to this man that never even see'd one of our national ships, much less smelt thunder and lightning out of one, that English like, has got this for what he didn't do.
"I am sorry Mr.Lett [Footnote: This was the man that blew up the Brock monument in Canada.

_He was a Patriot_.] is dead to Canada, or I'd give him a hint about this.

I'd say, 'I hope none of our free and enlightened citizens will blow this lyin', swaggerin', bullyin' monument up?
I should be sorry for 'em to take notice of such vulgar insolence as this; for bullies will brag.' He'd wink and say, 'I won't non-concur with you, Mr.Slick.I hope it won't be blowed up; but wishes like dreams come con_trary_ ways sometimes, and I shouldn't much wonder if it bragged till it bust some night.' It would go for it, that's a fact.