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gence, but though I laughed and he smiled I could not 

 for the life of me make out what he wanted. At last, by 

 slowly repeating the word " dogue," pointing at the same 

 time in one direction and holding up the bag, which I 

 saw had grease upon it, I made out that " George wanted 

 some more scraps for the dogs," so I took my good and 

 attentive friend to the bar and obtained a further supply. 

 John was a German, and I certainly never met with 

 a more attentive and obliging servant. Humble as his 

 calling may be, John will ever be remembered with the 

 greatest kindness and good- will. What a strong contrast 

 he afforded to the waiting Boh-hoys raised in the United 

 States of America, some of whom I encountered, and, to 

 their astonishment, briskly admonished, during rny visits 

 to St Louis, when, for the time being, they were induced 

 into more civil behaviour. On several occasions, some 

 of which I will relate in due time and place, I had to re 

 prehend these fellows with instantaneous effect; and, 

 perhaps, if the American gentlemen would be more par 

 ticular in exacting attention, and bear themselves less on 

 the equality system, dinners would be better waited on, 

 and the serving men no worse. During my drives around 

 St Louis and its vicinity with Mr Campbell, I had the 

 pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr Shaw, who, 

 with a beneficent and public spirit not often to be met 

 with, is at this time arranging his Missouri Botanical 

 Gardens, extending over 800 acres of excellent land, to 

 be dedicated to floriculture and public recreation, and I 

 believe eventually assigned as a bequest to the inhabit 

 ants of St Louis. I paid more than one visit to Mr Shaw, 

 and had the happiness of walking in his gardens with a 

 fair inhabitant of the United States, who added to her 

 other attractions a mind full of information, and gave me 



