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The Attache

CHAPTER VI
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Their language will change then.

It will be _our_ army, the delighted critters will say, not the English army; _our_ navy, _our_ church, _our_ parliament, _our_ aristocracy, &c., and the word English will be left out holus-bolus, and that proud, that endearin' word "our" will be insarted.

Do this, and you will shew yourself the first statesman of modern times.

You'll rise right up to the top of the pot, you'll go clean over Peel's head, as your folks go over ourn, not by jumpin' over him, but by takin' him by the neck and squeezin' him down.

You 'mancipated the blacks, now liberate the colonists and make Englishmen of them, and see whether the goneys won't grin from ear to ear, and shew their teeth, as well as the niggers did.


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