"See there?
That's the Atlantic Ocean--that is.

_Now_ will you hurry?
That's a ship coming in--see?
I bet it's a whopper, too.
Do you know what--what's off beyond there ?" he fairly panted in his excitement; "do you?
You old French hobo, you?
_America!_ That's where _I_ came from.

_Now_ will you hurry?
That's Dieppe, where the white[2] is and those steeples, see?
And way across there on the other side is America!" For _Uncle Sam_, notwithstanding his name, was a French motorcycle and had never seen America.
[2] Dieppe's famous beach..