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The Attache

CHAPTER III
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Oh it's an everlastin' pity you warn't here, when I was to England last time.

Queen was there then; and where she is, of coarse all the world and its wife is too.

She warn't there this year, and it sarves folks right.

If I was an angelyferous queen, like her, I wouldn't go nowhere till I had a tory minister, and then a feller that had a "trigger-eye" would stand a chance to get a white hemp-neckcloth.

I don't wonder Hume don't like young England; for when that boy grows up, he'll teach some folks that they had better let some folks alone, or some folks had better take care of some folks' ampersands that's all.
"The time I speak of, people went in their carriages, and not by railroad.


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