There never was so rainy a place in the univarse, as that, I don't think, unless it's Ireland, and the only difference atween them two is that it rains every day amost in England, and in Ireland it rains every day and every night too.

It's awful, and you must keep out of a country-house in such weather, or you'll go for it; it will kill you, that's sartain.

I shall never forget a juicy day I once spent in one of them dismal old places.

I'll tell you how I came to be there.
"The last time I was to England, I was a dinin' with our consul to Liverpool, and a very gentleman-like old man he was too; he was appointed by Washington, and had been there ever since our glorious revolution.

Folks gave him a great name, they said he was a credit to us.