But it tante safe to be caged with them in a house out o' town.

Fust thing you both do, is to get spooney, makin' eyes and company-faces at each other, and then think of matin', like a pair of doves, and that won't answer for the like of you and me.

The fact is, Squire, if you want to see _women_, you musn't go to a house in the country, nor to mere good company in town for it, tho' there be first chop articles in both; but you must go among the big bugs the top-lofty nobility, in London; for since the days of old marm Eve, down to this instant present time, I don't think there ever was or ever will be such splendiferous galls as is there.

Lord, the fust time I seed 'em it put me in mind of what happened to me at New Brunswick once.

Governor of Maine sent me over to their Governor's, official-like, with a state letter, and the British officers axed me to dine to their mess.