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rupted, he took notes. My experience with men in America, 

 though I was a youngster, had been various, and I was then 

 fresh from association with a large number of youngsters, 

 youngsters merely, but gathered from all parts of the Union. 

 With these I had been made intimate at foot ball and boat 

 club, in long walks, trouting excursions, duck shooting, long 

 winter night talks over the stove and more formal debates 

 of our ' ' Society. ' ' My experience of mankind and my views 

 of men were crude and bigoted, but they were obviously 

 sincere and simple convictions and they were as strange to 

 the Englishman as average English country-gentlemen's 

 convictions would surely be to me. 



