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6. What, Liverpool, Boston?* 



Cheng. Boston much the handsomest city. 

 Eng. Liverpool is much the dirtiest. 



7. What, manufactures? 



Cheng. The manufactures in Leeds. 



Eng. They suggest the idea of the ingenuity of man. 



8. What, war? 



Cheng. The battle of New Orleans. 



Eng. Very bad article to deal with: I think folks could get along- 

 better without it. 



9. What, money? 



Cheng. A mighty good thing. 



Eng. Very good I think — quite opposite to war. 



10. Whom of all our great men do you most admire? 

 Cheng. General Washington, John C. Calhoun. f 

 Eng. John C. Calhoun. 



11. How large does the sun appear to you? 

 Cheng. As big as this room. 



Eng. Not bigger than a decent sized centre table. 



12. Are you willing to settle in America? 

 Cheng. I think not. 



Eng. No. 



13. What do you regard as the most useful invention? 

 Cheng. A ship. 



Eng. Ship building. 



14. What kind of animal food do you like best? 

 Cheng. Ducks, geese and roast beef. 



Eng. Big goose. 



15. What kind of vegetable food? 

 Cheng. No particular preference. 



Eng. No choice — not being partial to any. 



16. What kind of fruit? 

 Cheng. Peaches, pears, melons. 

 Eng. Musk melons. 



17. What kind of perfume? 

 Both. Rose. 



" These cities were intended to be the subjects of separate questions, but 

 being by mistake conjoined in questioning one brother, they were put in the 

 same way to the other. 



t Their political predilections were then decidedly with the whigs, as the 

 suppressed answers showed. 

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