'Sam,' said he, 'don't call me that are, except when we are alone here, that's a good soul; not that I am proud, for I am a true Republican;' and he put his hand on his heart, bowed and smiled hansum, 'but these people will make a nickname of it, and we shall never hear the last of it; that's a fact.

We must respect ourselves, afore others will respect us.

You onderstand, don't you ?' "'Oh, don't I,' sais I, 'that's all?
It's only here I talks this way, because we are at home now; but I can't help a thinkin' how strange things do turn up sometimes.

Do you recollect, when I heard you a-preachin' about Hope a-pitchin' of her tent on a hill?
By gosh, it struck me then, you'd pitch, your tent high some day; you did it beautiful.' "He know'd I didn't like this change, that Mr.Hopewell had kinder inoculated me with other guess views on these matters, so he began to throw up bankments and to picket in the ground, all round for defence like.
"'Hope,' sais he, 'is the attribute of a Christian, Slick, for he hopes beyond this world; but I changed on principle.' "'Well,' sais I, 'I changed on interest; now if our great nation is backed by principal and interest here, I guess its credit is kinder well built.

And atween you and me, Abednego, that's more than the soft-horned British will ever see from all our States.