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So I hit him, and hit him rather hard, for what he had said out of pure devilry. He was sitting on the table and I knocked him off. His particular mate was the very thick-headed Englishman. He did his best for the Nova Scotian by holding me very tight while the blue-nose hammered me. This was awkward, to say nothing about the unfairness of it.
He said he could tell a man's politicks by his shirt. 'A Tory, Sir, said he, for he was a pompious old boy was old Blue-Nose; 'a Tory, Sir, said he, 'is a gentleman every inch of him, stock, lock, and barrel; and he puts a clean frill shirt on every day. A Whig, Sir, says he, 'is a gentleman every other inch of him, and he puts an onfrilled one on every other day.
"'Three miles, sais he. I took out my pocket-book purtendin' to write down the distance, but I booked his sayin' in my way-bill. "Yes, that is a Blue-nose; is it any wonder, Stranger, he is small potatoes and few in a hill?"
He said he could tell a man's politicks by his shirt. 'A Tory, Sir, said he, for he was a pompious old boy was old Blue-Nose; 'a Tory, Sir, said he, 'is a gentleman every inch of him, stock, lock, and barrel; and he puts a clean frill shirt on every day. A Whig, Sir, says he, 'is a gentleman every other inch of him, and he puts an onfrilled one on every other day.
"Oh! but let me tell you, I thought of all that before I made up my mind to marry the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher. I knew your dear little blue-nose would keep the orthodox trail; and being one of the Elect you could not get the points of the celestial compass mixed.
"Tonnerre!" exclaimed the frightened Frenchman, and, lifting both hands, he fell back against the wall. Moore still held the poker close to his stomach, as he called aloud, "Take the question, General Thomas! We come here to be admitted, and d me if we won't be, or this goes through your bread-basket, I tell you, Mr. Raphy Blue-nose!"
"It is the name of a potatoe," said I, "which they produce in great perfection, and boast to be the best in the world. The Americans have, in consequence, given them the nick-name of "Blue-noses." "And now," said Mr. Slick," as you have told the entire stranger, who a Blue-nose is, I'll jist up and tell him what he is.
"Now when your gun, Squire, was a knockin' over Blue-nose, and makin' a proper fool of him, and a knockin' over Jonathan, and a spilin' of his bran-new clothes, the English sung out chee, chee, chee, till all was blue agin. You had an excellent gun entirely then: let's see if they will sing out chee, chee, chee, now, when we take a shot at them.
Best of pals, best of sports, best of sky-pilots! Many a time as we have been marching along we have met him. He would pick out a face from among the crowd, maybe a British Columbia man. "Hello! salmon-belly!" would good Major John peal out. Again, he would see a Nova Scotian: "Hello! fish-eater hello, blue-nose!" Then through us all would go a rush of good feeling and good heart.
"Oh! some of us will camp out," sais I, "I am used to it, and like it a plaguy sight better than hot rooms." "Just the thing," said he. "Oh! Mr Slick, you are a man after my own heart. The nature of all foresters is alike, red or white, English or French, Yankee or Blue-nose." Jessie looked up at the coïncidence of that expression with what I had said yesterday.
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