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Updated: June 12, 2025
It tells how the author and his friend Sam, a shrewd vulgar Down-East Yankee, ride up and down the province discoursing on anything and everything.
Good, steady men we were, most of us, none of your blundering Irish, that wouldn't know a maple from a hickory, with their gin-bottles in their pockets, but our solid, Down-East Yankee heads, owning their farms all along the river, with schooling enough to know what they were about 'lection day.
He has only seen the down-east hide traders, who are regarded as heathen by the orthodox Dons of the Pacific. Don Miguel knows not that the mariners from Salem and the whalers of New England hold different religious views from the impassioned Creoles of the Crescent City. The prisoner's eye catches the black robe of the priest fluttering among the rose walks of the garden.
"So I thought so I thought well, then, I was glad yes, really rejoiced at heart, to hear that my countrymen, down-east, there, had made the king's troops scamper," "I am not aware that I used any such terms, sir, in connection with the manner in which we marched in, after the duty we went out on was performed," returned the young soldier, a little stiffly.
I went up to the single store to see what I could do. The storekeeper was a drawling, slow, down-east Yankee, perpetually chewing a long sliver or straw, talking exclusively through his nose, keen for a bargain, grasping of the last cent in a trade, and yet singularly interesting and agreeable. His sense of dry humour had a good deal to do with this.
One of the first discoveries of our earlier humorists was the Down-East Yankee. "I'm going to Portland whether or no," says Major Jack Downing, telling the story of his boyhood; "I'll see what this world is made of yet.
Down-east will stand no chance until Down-south gets satisfactorily served: a wondrous change has come over the General since he left the granite hills of his native State, where he did the law trade in a small way.
Cabot made mental note of the fact that the Blossom spoke her spirit pidgin-English with a marked Down-East accent. Before he had time to notice more, the control announced that she had a message. The circle stirred in anticipation. Primmie wiggled in fearful ecstasy. "Listen!" commanded Little Cherry Blossom. "Everybodee harkee. Spirit comee heree. He say-ee " "Ow-ooo-ooo ooo OOO!!"
He had seated himself shading his eyes from the light with his hand, an old trick of his compositor days, and still looked at her in the same friendly way. "Ever hear of the Down-East daily that black-guarded one of our greatest presidents the very day he died?
When I had finished his tone was calm, but I noticed that his hand was shaking and he seemed to be holding himself in. "And so you think you want to marry this down-east country girl, do you?" he said. "I certainly do," said I. He laughed, a forced laugh didn't sound like his at all and he said: "Well, my boy, you'll get over it.
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