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the Yankee his art of expectoration. He can hit 

 anything, within range, at any angle, and vault 

 you a curve of any parabolism. He will lodge 

 his alkaline or acid pellets between each of the 

 bars of the grate, exactly in the centre, each in 

 succession, and begin again from the bottom. 

 He will fusilade each corner of the heated 

 stove, and leave at each corner the impress 

 of the hissing conical, and finish off with a 

 vertical shell plumb down upon the centre ! 

 Never take a bet if a Yankee offers to wager 

 what he can do in the 'spital department ; but, 

 considering how few can do a " dirty thing" in a 

 handsome manner, we cannot deny our admira- 

 tion, in this particular, to the votaries of the 

 plug in America. 



The Finlander removes his quid from time to 

 time and sticks it behind his ear, and then chews 

 it again ; but the Yankee keeps it in until ex- 

 hausted of all its juices, and then he " chaws" 

 another. It is said that some sleep with it in 

 their mouth : a negro in his sleep swallowed one 

 of these plugs, and soon awoke with vomiting, 

 frightful cries, and frantic gesticulation. He was 



