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The Attache

CHAPTER IV
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Pray be seated.' He really was a very gentlemanlike man, was Squire Tact, that's a fact.

Sorry I kept you waitin' so long,' sais he, 'but the Turkish Ambassador was here at the time, and I was compelled to wait until he went.

I sent for you, Sir, a-hem!' and he rubbed his hand acrost his mouth, and looked' up at the cornish, and said, 'I sent for you, Sir, ahem!'-- (thinks I, I see now.

All you will say for half an hour is only throw'd up for a brush fence, to lay down behind to take aim through; and arter that, the first shot is the one that's aimed at the bird), 'to explain to you about this African Slave Treaty,' said he.
'Your government don't seem to comprehend me in reference to this Right of Sarch.

Lookin' a man in the face, to see he is the right man, and sarchin' his pockets, are two very different things.


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