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Smooth Citizen of the United States excuse these things for the present, rejoined Dablerdeen, who looked as if he did not know which way to turn, or how to please his people. Seeing this I sat down and watched the very odd style in which they played the game.
It was not to be concealed, however that Dablerdeen, master of the board, was gifted with the unfortunate characteristic of talking himself into an interminable difficulty. "'Who, or from whence on earth do you come? inquired my Lord. "'Smooth, I replied, that is my name; I am a citizen of the Great Republic come to study the way in which you are disorganizing foreign affairs.
Dablerdeen did all the talking, and Littlejohn, whom the reader will see had returned home helped him make his muff; and then there was a good deal of assisting one another to forget each move. But Sandy always moved slow, as if he had something under his thimble he was afraid of damaging.
Only five, however, could play at the game; and Sawny Dablerdeen, who always played on two small pipes, and paid sundry small pipers to do a deal of blowing, seemed in the greatest fuddle.
'It's only us outsiders, a voice replied, in most harmless accents. "'There! I told you we'd make a mess of it, that the outsiders would break in upon us' said Littlejohn, with a savage grimace, directing himself to Dablerdeen, who it was now thought better to call Grandmamma Fudge.
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