JONATHAN

Sir!--


JESSAMY

I say, Sir, I understand that Colonel Manly has the
honour of having you for a servant.

JONATHAN

Servant! Sir, do you take me for a neger,--I am
Colonel Manly's waiter.


JESSAMY

A true Yankee distinction, egad, without a differ-
ence. Why, Sir, do you not perform all the offices of
a servant? do you not even blacken his boots?


JONATHAN

Yes; I do grease them a bit sometimes; but I am a
true blue son of liberty, for all that. Father said I
should come as Colonel Manly's waiter, to see the