goes as far as the dure. It is onable to give protection to th'
customer, so whin he laves th' shop th' sthrong arm men iv th'
Sinit knocks him down an' takes fr'm him ivrything he got inside
an' more too. Di-plomacy has become a philanthropic pursoot like
shop-keepin', but politics, me lords, is still th' same ol' spoort
iv highway robb'ry. But I done what I cud to protict th' intherests
iv th' mother, father an' brother-in-law counthry, an' between
you an' me if I don't desarve th' Victorya cross f'r presintin'
that threaty to th' Sinit nobody does. I will on'y say that
hinceforth th' policy iv this gover'mint will be as befure not to
bully a sthrong power or wrong a weak, but will remain thrue to
th' principle iv wrongin' th' sthrong an' bullyin' th' weak.'

"Th' sicrety iv state was followed be th' ambassadure. 'I wish
to tell ye,' said he, 'what a good time I had in England. Befure
I wint there I was sthrongly prejudiced again' England. I thought
it was th' noblest counthry on which, as Dan'l Webster says, th'
sun niver set without hatchin' out a new colony. But I did it a
great injustice. It is betther thin what I thought. It does not
care f'r chaff or gush such as goes down in this counthry. All an
English gintleman demands is that ye shall be ye'ersilf, frank,
manly an' sincere. A little cry on th' shouldher, a firm grasp
iv th' hand, a brief acknowledgment that we owe our language an'
are payin' it back, our lithrachoor an' our boots to him, an' his
heart opens. He cannot conceal his admiration f'r ye. He goes
away. Ah, niver will I f'rget th' day I peeked out iv me bed-room
window at Windsor Castle an' see manny iv th' sturdy lielists here
befure me bein' received in th' back yard be th' king. I mind
well th' wurruds that fell fr'm his lips whin ye left to take lunch
in th' rile woodshed. "Chote," he says, "thim were a fine lot iv