Reformer as Mrs.Lee was, and a little alarmed at the roughness of Ratcliffe's treatment, she could not blame the Prairie Giant, as she ought, who, after knocking poor French down, rolled him over and over in the mud.
"Are you financier enough, Mr.French, to know what are the most famous products of Connecticut ?" Mr.French modestly suggested that he thought its statesmen best answered that description.
"No, sir! even there you're wrong.

The showmen beat you on your own ground.

But every child in the union knows that the most famous products of Connecticut are Yankee notions, nutmegs made of wood and clocks that won't go.

Now, your Civil Service Reform is just such another Yankee notion; it's a wooden nutmeg; it's a clock with a show case and sham works.

And you know it! You are precisely the old-school Connecticut peddler.