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How little, comparatively, the English "swop stories"! The Scotch are almost as much addicted as the Americans to this form of barter, so are the Irish. The Englishman has usually a dignified dread of dropping into his "anecdotage." The stories thus collected in America are the subsoil of American literary humour, a rich soil in which the plant cultivated by Mark Twain and Mr.
I have a vast store of them laid up, wherewith to wile away the tedious years of my anecdotage whenever it shall please Heaven to make me old. Some years that I passed in London as a working journalist are particularly rich in them. Ah! "we were a gallant company" in those days. I am told that the English are heavy thinkers and dull talkers.
The lively lady's anecdotage, dateless and confused, he could afford to despise as 'too void of method even for such a farrago, as Horace Walpole said of it. But the solemn Hawkins, as an old friend and executor of Johnson's will, was a more dangerous rival.
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