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The Attache

CHAPTER IX
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You know my speed, and I know your bottom don't throw back in the breetchin' for nothin' that way." "Well, as I was a-sayin', I want you to see these great men, as they call 'em.

Let's weigh 'em, and measure 'em, and handle 'em, and then price 'em, and see what their market valy is.

Don't consider 'em as Tories, or Whigs, or Radicals; we hante got nothin' to do with none o' them; but consider 'em as statesmen.

It's pot-luck with 'em all; take your fork as the pot biles up, jab it in, and fetch a feller up, see whether he is beef, pork or mutton; partridge, rabbit or lobster; what his name, grain and flavour is, and how you like him.

Treat 'em indifferent, and treat 'em independent.
"I don't care a chaw o' tobacky for the whole on 'em; and none on 'em care a pinch o' snuff for you or any Hortentort of a colonist that ever was or ever will be.


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