There were truth and gratitude for you! He gave the whul account, too, as a specimen of what he called American living!" Hereupon I reminded my companion, that an Englishman did not like to receive even favors on compulsion; that when he meets a stranger in his own country, and is master of his own actions, no man understands better what true hospitality is, as I hoped one day to show him, at Householder Hall; as to his first remark, he ought to remember that an Englishman considered America as no more than the country, and that it would be ill-mannered to press an acquaintance made there.
Noah, like most other men, was very reasonable on all subjects that did not interfere with his prejudices or his opinions; and he very readily admitted the general justice of my reply.
"It's pretty much as you say, Sir John," he continued; "in England you may press men, but it won't do to press hospitality.

Get a volunteer in this way, and he is as good a fellow as heart can wish.

I shouldn't have cared so much about the chap's book, if he had said nothin' ag'in the rum.

Why, Sir John, when the English bombarded Stunin'tun with eighteen pounders, I proposed to load our old twelve with a gallon out of the very same cask, for I do think it would have huv' the shot the best part of a mile!" -- But this digression is leading me from the narrative.

My Lord Chatterino turned his head a little on one side as we were passing, and I was deliberating whether, under the circumstances, it would be well-bred to remind him of our old acquaintance, when the question was settled by the decision of Captain Poke, who placed himself in such a position that it was no easy matter to get round him, through him, or over him--or who laid himself what he called "athwart hawse." "Good morning, my lord," said the straightforward seaman, who generally went at a subject as he went at a seal.