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Fritz and Eric

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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"You would not think, then, that I had been all through the terrible war we've had with France, eh ?" "Pst!" ejaculated the other.

"You don't call that a war, do you?
Why, you don't know what a war is in your miserable, played-out old continent! Look at ours, lasting nearly four years, and the battle of Gettysburgh, with thirty thousand dead alone! What do you think of that, hey ?" "Gravelotte had nearly as many," said Fritz quietly.
"All right, mister; we won't argy the p'int now; but you haven't answered me yet as to what you ken do." "Well, then," answered Fritz, "I can speak and write three languages, keep books, and act as a good correspondent and manager." "I like that," exclaimed the other admiringly.

"You speak slick and straight to the p'int, without any bunkum or blarney, like some of them that come over here.

But, what line have you run on in the old country ?" "The shipping business is what I know best about," replied Fritz.
"Ah, that's the reason, I suppose, you asked me if thar wer any ships up to Providence, hey, mister ?" "Yes," said Fritz.

"I have applied to all the houses in New York in vain, and I thought I would try my chance at some other seaport town." "Didn't like going inland, then!" "No," he answered.
"And so you selected Providence ?" "I only did so from chance.


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