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The Attache

CHAPTER VII
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Kennel and hounds for parsicutin' foxes--presarves (not what we call presarves, quinces and apple sarce, and green gages done in sugar, but preserves for breedin' tame partridges and peasants to shoot at), H'aviaries, Hive-eries, H'yew-veris, Hot Houses, and so on; for they put an H before every word do these critters, and then tell us Yankees we don't speak English.
"Well, when you have seen an old and a new house of these folks, you have seen all.

Featurs differ a little, but face of all is so alike, that though p'raps you wouldn't mistake one for another, yet you'd say they was all of one family.

The king is their father.
"Now it may seem kinder odd to you, and I do suppose it will, but what little natur there is to England is among these upper crust nobility.
_Extremes meet_.

The most elegant critter in America is an Indgian chief.

The most elegant one in England is a noble.


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