I told him I was an American traveller, weary, hungry, and infirm of health, and would pay an extra price for an extra effort to give me a bed for the night.

I did not say all this in a Romanus-civus-sum sort of tone.

No! dear, honest Old Abe, you would have done the same in my place.

I made the great American Eagle coo like a dove in the request; and it touched the best instincts of the British Lion within the man.

It was evident in a moment that I had put my case in a new aspect to him.