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The Attache

CHAPTER II
19/24

I'll try him agin.
"So I sais to him, 'He looks,' sais I, 'as if he'd trot a considerable good stick, that horse,' sais I, 'I guess he is a goer.' "Y' mae, ye un trotter da,' sais he.
"'Creation!' sais I, 'if this don't beat gineral trainin'.

I have heerd in my time, broken French, broken Scotch, broken Irish, broken Yankee, broken Nigger, and broken Indgin; but I have hearn two pure gene_wine_ languages to-day, and no mistake, rael rook, and rael Britton, and I don't exactly know which I like wus.

It's no use to stand talkin' to this critter.

Good-bye,' sais I.
"Now what do you think he said?
Why, you would suppose he'd say good-bye too, wouldn't you?
Well, he didn't, nor nothin' like it, but he jist ups, and sais, 'Forwelloaugh,' he did, upon my soul.

I never felt so stumpt afore in all my life.


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