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were so uninviting, that he was almost tempted to 

 wish himself back again. Nevertheless, he seemed 

 rather amused than disconcerted by the frank, forward 

 familiarity of the people he had come amongst. 



"And d n it ! " exclaimed one of the men after a 

 long pause, during which Hodges had been the ob- 

 served of all eyes, " who, in the devil's name, are 

 you ? You are no redskin ? " 



" No, that I'm not," replied the young man, laugh- 

 ing ; " I am an Englishman." 



He spoke the last words in the short decided tone, 

 and with all the importance of a baron or count, who, 

 having condescended to arrive in disguise amongst 

 his dependents, on a sudden thinks proper to lay 

 aside his incognito. There was in his look and 

 manner, as he glanced over the crowd, a degree of 

 self-satisfaction, and a curiosity to see the impression 

 made by the announcement, mingled with the feeling 

 of superiority which John Bull willingly entertains, 

 and which he at that time was wont to display to- 

 wards Brother Jonathan, but which has since entirely 

 disappeared, and given place to a sort of envious 

 uneasiness a certain proof, in spite of the scorn in 

 which it disguises itself, of his consciousness of the 

 superiority of the detested Brother Jonathan afore- 

 said. 



" An Englishman ! " repeated twenty voices. 



" A Britisher ! " vociferated fifty more, and amongst 

 these a young man in a grass-green coat, who had 



