[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER V 5/17
There is nothin' too gross for him to swaller.
We call them turkeys; first because they travel so fast--for no bird travels hot foot that way, except it be an ostrich--and second, because they gobble up every thing that comes in their way.
Them fellers will swaller a falsehood as fast as a turkey does a grasshopper; take it right down whole, without winkin'. "Now, as we have nothin' above particular to do, 'I'll cram him' for you; I will show you how hungry he'll bite at a tale of horror, let it be never so onlikely; how readily he will believe it, because it is agin us; and then, when his book comes out, you shall see that all England will credit it, though I swear I invented it as a cram, and you swear you heard it told as a joke.
They've drank in so much that is strong, in this way, have the English, they require somethin' sharp enough to tickle their palates now.
Wine hante no taste for a man that drinks grog, that's a fact.
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