His experience is greater than that of any man now living, and his views more enlarged and more philosophical.
"Go on, Sam," said he with great good humour.

"Let us hear what the Prince's horse said." "Well," said Mr.Slick, "I don't jist exactly mean to say he spoke, as Balaam's donkey did, in good English or French nother; but he did that that spoke a whole book, with a handsum wood-cut to the fore, and that's a fact.
"About two years ago, one mortal brilin' hot day, as I was a pokin' along the road from Halifax to Windsor, with Old Clay in the waggon, with my coat off, a ridin' in my shirt-sleeves, and a thinkin' how slick a mint-julep would travel down red-lane, if I had it, I heard such a chatterin', and laughin', and screamin' as I never a'most heerd afore, since I was raised.
"'What in natur' is this,' sais I, as I gave Old Clay a crack of the whip, to push on.

'There is some critters here, I guess, that have found a haw haw's nest, with a tee hee's egg in it.

What's in the wind now ?' Well, a sudden turn of the road brought me to where they was, and who should they be but French officers from the Prince's ship, travellin' incog.

in plain clothes.