'We are a smart people here, and can appreciate smartness.' 'Is smartness American for forgery ?' asked Martin.
'Well!' said the colonel, 'I expect it's American for a good many things that you call by other names.

But you can't help yourself in Europe.

We can.' 'And do, sometimes,' thought Martin.

'You help yourselves with very little ceremony, too!' 'At all events, whatever name we choose to employ,' said the colonel, stooping down to roll the third empty bottle into a corner after the other two, 'I suppose the art of forgery was not invented here sir ?' 'I suppose not,' replied Martin.
'Nor any other kind of smartness I reckon ?' 'Invented! No, I presume not.' 'Well!' said the colonel; 'then we got it all from the old country, and the old country's to blame for it, and not the new 'un.

There's an end of THAT.