"At least I have been told so." "It all sounds characteristic to me," said the Sam Johnson.

"It's quite the sort of thing one expects to hear from the States." "It is characteristic," said the American.

"In spite of all the years that the sea has separated us, we're still inveterately like you, a bullying, dishonest lot--though we've had nothing quite so bad yet as your opium trade with China." The Sam Johnson said no more.
At a ranch in Wyoming were a number of Americans and one Englishman, a man of note, bearing a celebrated name.

He was telling the company what one could do in the way of amusement in the evening in London.
"And if there's nothing at the theatres and everything else fails, you can always go to one of the restaurants and hear the Americans eat." There you have them, my anecdotes.

They are chosen from many.