9/18 How do you like bein' shut in? 'You've kept me in all my life; don't be oneasy if I keep you in five minutes.' "'Well, what do you want then ?' he'll say, kinder peevish; 'what do you want ?' 'I don't want nothin' for myself,' sais you. 'I've got all I can get in that pond; and I got that from the Whigs, fellers I've been abusin' all my life; and I'm glad to make amends by acknowledging this good turn they did me; for I am a tory, and no mistake. I don't want nothin'; but I want to be an _Englishman_. I don't want to be an English _subject_; do you understand that now? |