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the English language so badly spoken among 

 those who hire themselves as ' helps ' in families 

 in America, as you do amongst servants in 

 England. In the progress of refinement it was 

 mentioned as a fact, that 6 a young woman meet- 

 ing lately a former fellow-servant, asked her 

 how she liked her new place, 6 Very well, ' was 

 her reply ; c Then you have nothing to complain 

 of?' c Nothing,' said she, 'only master and 

 mistress talk such very bad grammar.' Their 

 education and religious instruction have given 

 the New Englanders so decided a cast of na- 

 tional character, that they are distinguished 

 among the Americans, like the Scots among 

 Europeans, as a moral, intelligent, enterprizing 

 people. 



Like the Americans in general, they are very 

 fond of anniversaries, public meetings, ora- 

 tions, and rejoicings, by which all classes are 

 reminded of those events which led to their 

 independence. The term c Yankee,' is, in 

 good humour, particularly applied to them, and 

 is said to be derived from 6 Yankoo,' the 

 name of a hostile tribe of Indians, who were 

 overcome by the first settlers, to whom the 

 vanquished chief gave the name, that it might 

 not become extinct. It is from the true-born 

 Yankees that the United States government 



