_A Dialogue in Dialect, some way after Bret Harte's "Jim."_
[Referring, in the course of conversation, to the deadlock
in the Senate, Mr. CHAMBERLAIN said:--"My opinion is that the
Americans are the most patient people on the globe. Such
an outcome from an organised system of obstruction would be
impossible in England, which I venture to say, with my foot on
New York soil, is far more democratic than America. Democracy,
as I take it, means the government of the people by the
people."--_The "Times'" New York Correspondent, Oct. 13._]
"C[oe]lum, non (?) animum, mutant, qui trans mare currunt."
_Jonathan to Joseph, loquitur:_--
Say thar! P'r'aps
You're of them chaps
_Approve_ this child,
Who makes _me_ wild!--
_No?_--no offence:
Thar ain't much sense
In gittin' riled!
JOE, old chum,
Welcome ye are!
Say! Ye've jest come
Up from down thar.
Lookin' round, JOE?
That's right, Sir! _You_
Ain't of that crew
Makes freedom rar'.
_Tory?_ Not much,
That ain't _my_ kind:
I ain't no such,--
Democrat--blind!
Rayther like _you_!
Well, this yer boy
(With his derned toy),
Is a fair limb.--
Not much--in size!
Stirs _your_ surprise?--
Wal, that _is_ strange:
_Your_ nipper, now,
Riz up some row,
Down under thar,
Ony this year!
Since you came here.
You've felt a change!
Wal, he licks _us_!
Eh?
_Spank him_, you say!
_Spank?_--
_This_ little cuss?
You make me star,--
Down under, thar,
Minorities stop
Truck--in your shop,
And _you_ don't rar'!
Here, wide awake
To our mistake.
_Our_ boy you bar!
_Spank!_--
This--little--cuss?
Wal, he does fuss,
Raises a muss.
His "Silver" whim,
His spoutin' prank--
(Leather-lung'd limb!)
Does crab the swim.
_Should_ like to yank
Him crost my knees,
And--but thar! spank
_Him?_
_Patient_, Sir--I?
No democrat?
Here, Sir, stand by!
I can't stand _that_!
_You_ wouldn't stand
_Him_--in your land?
Eh?
What's that you say?
Why, dern it!--sho!--
Draw it mild, JOE!
Bold?
Obstruction? Yes!
Still, as I guess--
Though I'll confess
_You_'re an authority--
'Tain't no new thing
(_You_'ve had your fling!),
But ornery,
Derned old,
Loud-lunged--Minority!
Little--Master--Minority!
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