The chairman, chair and man, were in a moment raised to a corresponding elevation upon the table, over the collection; and the controversy and clamor, from concentrating, as it did before, upon the person of the pedler, were now transferred to the commodities he brought for sale.

Order having been at length obtained, Colonel Blundell undertook the assertion of his own and the wrongs of his fellow-sufferers, and kept uninterrupted possession of the floor.
"And now, Mr.Chairman, I will jist go a little into the particulars of the rogueries and rascalities of this same Yankee.

Now, in the first place, he is a Yankee, and that's enough, itself, to bring him to punishment--but we'll let that pass, and go to his other transactions--for, as I reckon, it's quite punishment enough for that offence, to be jist what he is.

He has traded rotten stuffs about the country, that went to pieces the first washing.

He has traded calico prints, warranted for fast colors, that ran faster than he ever ran himself.