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" Life o' Columbus" somewhere in the beginning 

 part, where he talks to himself so, till they all 

 thought him out of his wits. I'm blest if it aint just 

 like Columbus, as diskivered America ! You ought 

 to take a pattern out, Sir.' 



( Did Columbus take out a patent, Greening ? ' 

 ' Oh my ! that's capital ! a pattern for America ! 

 Well, that is a good un, however ; no, no, I guess 

 his diskivery was a little too big for a pattern 

 " Wide as a world and broad as 'umanity," as our 

 parson says No, no ! he died quite the wrong side 

 o' money-making now I think of it. But I wish 

 you'd a' talked it, now, instead o' reading : for some- 

 how the soft back of this chair o' yourn, and that 

 what was it piping-Dickler my heart ! what a 

 word that was ; i,t sent me right off wool-gathering 

 I knew it would ! I just shut my eyes to think 

 it over a bit and I was off like a shot. What is 

 the use o' them long words they're just for all the 

 world like the Spanish onions, ha'n't half as much 

 flavour in 'em as the little uns. That's what comes 

 o' your travelling abroad now! Blesh ye, them 

 Romans and Antidaluvians as you 'a' been amongst, 

 don't know no more about farming than a lot o' cock- 

 ney tailors, for all their long words. Now do just 



