If you'll just step out a minute, I guess I'll find room for it." "Perhaps so.

But how shall I find room for myself afterwards ?" This was uttered in European accents, and in an instant half a dozen whiskey drinkers stepped from before the whiskey store, and took the part of the _beau_.
"That's because you'll be English travellers I expect, but we have travelled in better countries than Europe--we have travelled in America--and the box will go, I calculate." We remonstrated on the evident injustice of the proceeding, and I ventured to say, that as we had none of us any luggage in the carriage, because the space was so very small, I thought a chance passenger could have no right so greatly to incommode us.
"Right!--there they go--that's just their way--that will do in Europe, may be; it sounds just like English tyranny, now don't it?
but it won't do here." And thereupon he began thrusting in the wooden box against our legs, with all his strength.
"No law, sir, can permit such conduct as this." "Law!" exclaimed a gentleman very particularly drunk, "we makes our own laws, and governs our own selves." "Law!" echoed another gentleman of Vernon, "this is a free country, _we have no laws here_, and we don't want no foreign power to tyrannize over us." 295 I give the words exactly.

It is, however, but fair to state, that the party had evidently been drinking more than an usual portion of whiskey, but, perhaps, in whiskey, as in wine, truth may come to light.

At any rate the people of the Western Paradise follow the Gentiles in this, that they are a law unto themselves.
During the contest, the coachman sat upon the box without saying a word, but seemed greatly to enjoy the joke; the question of the box, however, was finally decided in our favour by the nature of the human material, which cannot be compressed beyond a certain degree.
For the great part of this day we had the good fortune to have a gentleman and his daughter for our fellow-travellers, who were extremely intelligent and agreeable; but I nearly got myself into a scrape by venturing to remark upon a phrase used by the gentleman, and which had met me at every corner from the time I first entered the country.

We had been talking of pictures, and I had endeavoured to adhere to the rule I had laid down for myself, of saying very little, where I could say nothing agreeable.