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'I ha' known a single maple yield a matter o' fifty gallons, an' that not so big a one neither, was the reply. 'An' what's more, they grow the better for the bleedin'. I guess you hadn't none of this sort o' sugar to hum in England? 'Not a grain: all cane sugar imported. 'Wal, you Britishers must be everlastin' rich, was Zack's reply.
Splitwater, agreed that it was expedient to be in pursuit of the fish while the Britishers were attending their political gatherings and prayer-meetings. Mackerel were right knowing fish, he said, and could with good feed be coaxed across the line, and into the waters not held sacred against American hooks by British law.
The first thing that it is almost impossible for us Britishers to get into our minds is this, that Germany, not simply the Kaiser and the governing classes, but the whole body of the German people, take themselves and their empire and their destiny with most amazing seriousness. Listen to this, for instance.
The biggest kind of a feast, or powwow, or council, or whatever it might have been called, was in progress, and so deeply interested were the Britishers, Tories, and Indians alike that I believe of a verity we could have approached within fifty feet and not been discovered save by purest accident.
Not if I can make the scoop here and see the Britishers sit up. 'You won't do it with three columns of slushy headline, believe me. They don't sit up as quickly as some people. 'I'm beginning to think that too. Does nothing make any difference in this country? he said, looking out of the window. 'How old is that farmhouse? 'New. It can't be more than two hundred years at the most. 'Urn.
No wonder that the trashing of sugar-cane is not a popular pastime among Britishers. Given a quiet and contented mind, a banana-grove, a patch of sweet potatoes, orange and mango and papaw trees, a few coffee plants; the sea for fish, the rocks for oysters; the mangrove flats for crabs, and is it not possible to become fat with a minimum of labour?
But the feat is arduous and presupposes a variety of conditions which the President was unable to fulfil. His conception of Europe, for example, was much too simple. It has been aptly likened to that of the American economist who once remarked to the manager of an English railway: "You Britishers are handicapped by having to build your railway lines through cities and towns.
When we told him that it was our duty to take him into custody, he became very abusive, calling us 'Thick-headed John Bulls, 'Fat-headed Englishmen, 'Mutton heads, 'Blasted Britishers, etc. He had also abused the English people in very violent terms." The constables had taken charge of him and handed him over to the customary escort sent after him from camp.
An unearthly light gleamed from his eyes. In that moment Wetzel was an appalling sight. "Col. Zane, I'd been here days before, but I run into some Shawnees, and they gave me a hard chase. I have to report that Girty, with four hundred Injuns and two hundred Britishers, are on the way to Ft. Henry." "My God!" exclaimed Col. Zane. Strong man as he was the hunter's words had unnerved him.
But when he saw that he was merely threatened by a few unarmed and helpless Britishers his sang froid returned, although it was with a palpable effort. He glared at us. There was no disguising or possibility of misconstruing the expressions of loathsome disgust and rage upon our faces. One and all wondered afterwards why he did not sentence every man of us to a spell at the post.
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