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own acts ; but is it not monstrous to suppose, 

 that 1 should praise myself, and show that I be 

 lieved myself destined to be the Atlas of the 

 British nation, in my conversation of a few mi 

 nutes with an utter stranger, and that, too, a 

 blade whom I took for a decent tailor, my son 

 William for a shop-keeper's clerk, and Mrs. 

 Churcher, with less charity, for a slippery young 

 man, or, at best, for an Exciseman ? As I said 

 before, such a man can know nothing of the 

 people of America. He has no channel through 

 which to get at them. And, indeed, why should 

 he ! Can he go into the families of people at 

 home ! Not he, indeed, beyond his own low 

 circle. Why should he do it here, then? Did 

 he think he was coming here to live at fret 

 quarter? The black woman's hut, indeed, he 

 might force himself into with impunity ; six 

 pence would insure him a reception there ; but, 

 it would be a shame, indeed, if such a man 

 could be admitted to unreserved intercourse 

 with American ladies. Slippery as he was, he 

 could not slide into their good graces, and into 

 the possession of their fathers' soul-subduing 

 dollars ; and so he is gone home to curse the 

 " nasty guessing Americans." 



WM. 



