It is a great and a good country, Mr.Poker, but there is no natur in it.' "It is as true as gospel," said Mr.Slick, "I'm tellin' you no lie.

It's a fact.

If you expect to paint them English, as you have the Blue-Noses and us, you'll pull your line up without a fish, oftener than you are a-thinkin' on; that's the reason all our folks have failed.

'Rush's book is jist molasses and water, not quite so sweet as 'lasses, and not quite so good as water; but a spilin' of both.

And why?
His pictur was of polished life, where there is no natur.