The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trial of the witnesses. (ji triumph on their part, although it was a real one. Of course, we were no longer hidden. And we talked openly after that, as an American. And this to show, that the American tongue is not sure to betray us, even in Great Britain; notwithstanding Basil Hall’s testimony, that it is so peculiar he could not understand, nor be understood in America. We suspect the Cap- tain speaks figuratively, now and then; and we should have concluded, that he was indulging in tropes in this matter, if he had not said in plain “English English,” that he meant lan- guage. But as tropes, and figures, and airs, and various other signs, are employed in the office of language—it is possible the Captain meant to say that he could not make his airs to be understood. He labours under a mistake, however, even in that. The Yankees have more perspicacity, than he has given them credit for. It is, perhaps, still more curious, that we should have taken this London trio for genuine and full blooded Yankees, of the New England stamp, tor the first day of our intercourse with them. And when we came to be certified, that they were born and bred in London, it seemed to us incredible. Of course, we esteem this no
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