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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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money? Ain't there lords in this country that know how
to "repudiate" as well as ring-tail-roarers in ourn. So
come now, don't throw stones till you put your
window-shutters to, or you may stand a smart chance of
gettin' your own glass broke, that's a fact.'

"And then, Squire, jist look at the carriages. I'll bet
you a goose and trimmin's you can't find their ditto
nowhere. They _are_ carriages, and no mistake, that's
a fact. Look at the hosses, the harness, the paint, the
linin's, the well-dressed, lazy, idle, infarnal hansum
servants, (these rascals, I suspicion, are picked out
for their looks), look at the whole thing all through
the piece, take it, by and large, stock, lock, and barrel,
and it's the dandy, that's a fact. Don't it cost money,
that's all? Sumtotalize it then, and see what it all
comes to. It would make your hair stand on eend, I know.
If it was all put into figure, it would reach clean across
the river; and if it was all put into dollars, it would
make a solid tire of silver, and hoop the world round
and round, like a wheel.

"If you want to give a man an idea of England, Squire,
tell him of Ascot; and if you want to cram him, get old
Multiplication-table Joe H-- to cast it up; for he'll
make it come to twice as much as it railly is, and that
will choke him. Yes, Squire, _stick to Ascot_.



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