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only as servants or inferiors, and there- 

 fore could know but little of their habits 

 or character when off the box. 



It is true, I had heard of one or 

 two, who had visited the antipodes on 

 Government business (loike), as Emery 

 used to say, in the character of Tyke, 

 in the "School of Reform"; but this might 

 have happened from a misconstruction of 

 the law of meum and tuum, to which all 

 were liable; or, at any rate, from the 

 different interpretation given to it by 

 master and man. The causes of such 

 a distinction 1 therefore simply thought, 

 could not apply to any of those noted 

 practitioners whose company was sought, 

 and dress and manners imitated, by gen- 

 tles and nobles, and who indeed appeared 

 to me to be as much beyond such vulgar 

 imputations as their employers. 



As I am now about to speak of some 

 of the members of the fraternity, it will 



