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friend and himself being shared by the rest 

 of the company. On his resenting this, he 

 kept his hand on the revolver he had in his 

 pocket, and when the bully shewed the first 

 hostile demonstration, he snatched out his own 

 weapon, and declared that, let him move but 

 a finger, and he was a dead man. 



Here was a fine specimen of the same 

 "genus" rough, we find such a nuisance at 

 home, only in a much more sanguinary shape. 



The impression these two travellers left upon 

 me of Yankee blackguardism, was soon dispelled 

 by the timely arrival the following evening of 

 two young Americans, who were engaged in a 

 pedestrian tour through Scotland. One of the 

 strangers was a youth no one could help 

 remarking as a most favourable specimen any 

 country on the face of the globe might well be 

 proud to call its own. His person, voice, 

 demeanour stamped him at once as a thorough- 

 bred gentleman. So intelligent did he prove, 

 that I lost no time in launching into a dis- 



