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Title: American notes for general circulation
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Publisher: Boston : Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mountain, and there, of course, it stops,the passengers being conveyed across it byland-carriage, and taken on afterwards byanother canal-boat, the counterpart of thefirst, which awaits them on the other side.There are two canal lines of passage-boats ;one is called The Express, and one (acheaper one) The Pioneer. The Pioneergets first to the mountain, and waits forthe Express people to come up; both setsof i:»assengers being conveyed across it atthe same time. We were the Express com-pany ; but when we had crossed the moun-tain, and had come to the second boat, theproprietors took it into their heads to draftall the Pioneers into it likewise, so that wewere five-and-lbrty at least, and the acces-sion of passengers was not at all of thatkind which inq>roved the prospect of sleep-ing at night. Our people grumbled at this,as people do in such cases, but suffered theboat to be towed off with the whole freightaboard nevertlieless; and away we wentdown the canal. At home, I should have
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THE BROWN FORESTER, FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION. 79 protested lustily, but being a foreigner hereI held my peace. Not so this passenger.He cleft a path among the people on deck(we were nearly all on deck), and, withoutaddressing anybody whomsoever, solilo-quized as follows; — This may suit you, this may, but it dontsuit me. This may be all very well withDown-Easters, and men of Boston raising,but it wont suit my figure nohow; and no twoways about tlmt; and so I tell you. Now !I m from the brown forests of the Mississip-pi, / am, and when the sun shines on me, itdoes shine — a little. It dont glimmerwhere / live, the sun dont. No. I m abrown forester, I am. I aint a JohnnyCake. There are no smooth skins where Ilive. We re rough men there. Rather. IfDown-Easters, and men of Boston raisinglike this, I m glad of it, but I m none of thatraising nor of that breed. No. This com-pany wants a little fixing, it does. I m thewrong sort of man for em, / am. Theywont like me, theu wont. This is pi

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