[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER XV 1/20
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DINING OUT. My visit to Germany was protracted beyond the period I had originally designed; and, during my absence, Mr.Slick had been constantly in company, either "dining out" daily, when in town, or visiting from one house to another in the country. I found him in great spirits.
He assured me he had many capital stories to tell me, and that he rather guessed he knew as much of the English, and a leetle, jist a leetle, grain more, p'raps, than they knew of the Yankees. "They are considerable large print are the Bull family," said he; "you can read them by moonlight.
Indeed, their faces ain't onlike the moon in a gineral way; only one has got a man in it, and the other hain't always.
It tante a bright face; you can look into it without winkin'. It's a cloudy one here too, especially in November; and most all the time makes you rather sad and solemncoly.
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