NOETHEEN ETJSSIA. 



CHAPTER V. 



MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 



AN ordinary amount of common sense, apart from 

 an ordinary amount of experience from travel 

 in foreign countries, may suffice to teach a man the 

 absurdity of giving forth his opinions, with the slightest 

 confidence in their being founded on sufficient evidence, 

 regarding the political or social condition, from his own 

 observation, of any country which he has visited for a few 

 weeks only. 



The first day I landed in the United States, I took my 

 seat on the top of an omnibus by no means an aristo- 

 cratic position, but a most interesting one in passing 

 through the streets of a great city when my attention 

 was called to the fact of the driver seating himself on the 

 left or "off" side of the ample " Box." 



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