Throughout these works it will be observed, that Mr.Slick's pronunciation is that of the Yankee, or an inhabitant of the _rural districts_ of New England.

His conversation is generally purely so; but in some instances he uses, as his countrymen frequently do from choice, phrases which, though Americanisms, are not of Eastern origin.

Wholly to exclude these would be to violate the usages of American life; to introduce them oftener would be to confound two dissimilar dialects, and to make an equal departure from the truth.

Every section has its own characteristic dialect, a very small portion of which it has imparted to its neighbours.

The dry, quaint humour of New England is occasionally found in the west, and the rich gasconade and exaggerative language of the west migrates not unfrequently to the east.