[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER XIV 2/15
This burial place contains no one that I have ever seen or known; but it contains the remains of those from whom I derived my lineage and my name.
I therefore naturally desired to see it. Having communicated my intention to my two American companions, I was very much struck with the different manner in which they received the announcement. "Come back soon, Squire," said Mr.Slick; "go and see your old friend, if you must, and go to the old campin' grounds of your folks; though the wigwam I expect has gone long ago, but don't look at anythin' else. I want we should visit the country together.
I have an idea from what little I have seed of it, Scotland is over-rated.
I guess there is a good deal of romance about their old times; and that, if we knowed all, their old lairds warn't much better, or much richer than our Ingian chiefs; much of a muchness.
Kinder sorter so, and kinder sorter not so, no great odds.
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