People's Friend is the only appellation of which I am at all tenacious.

Call me People's Friend, sir, and you may call me anything else you find most convenient." "Sir, you are only too obliging.

May I venture to ask if you have really, propria persona, filled all these different stations in life ?" "Certainly, sir--I hope you do not mistake me for an impostor!" "As far from it as possible .-- But a judge and a commodore, for instance, are characters whose duties are so utterly at variance in human affairs, that I will allow I find the conjunction, even in a monikin, a little extraordinary." "Not at all, sir.

I was duly elected to each, served my time out in them all, and have honorable discharges to show in every instance." "You must have found some perplexity in the performance of duties so very different ?" "Ah--I see you have been long enough in Leaphigh to imbibe some of its prejudices! It is a sad country for prejudice.

I got my foot mired in some of them myself, as soon as it touched the land.