How unconsciously inseparable--in spite of the lightness with which they regarded the curious tie between them--the two countries were.

The people upon the stage were acting as if they knew their public, their bearing suggesting no sense of any barrier beyond the footlights.

It was the unconsciousness and lightness of the mutual attitude which had struck him of late.

Punch had long jested about "Fair Americans," who, in their first introduction to its pages, used exotic and cryptic language, beginning every sentence either with "I guess," or "Say, Stranger"; its male American had been of the Uncle Sam order and had invariably worn a "goatee." American witticisms had represented the Englishman in plaid trousers, opening his remarks with "Chawley, deah fellah," and unfailingly missing the point of any joke.

Each country had cherished its type and good-naturedly derided it.