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This brings in his second in command; and sais he, 'Pray walk in here, if you please, Sir, and he led me into a little plain, stage-coach-house lookin' room, with nothin' but a table and two or three chairs in it; and says he, 'Who shall I say, Sir? "'The Honourable Mr. Slick, sais I, 'Attache of the American Legation to the court of Saint Jimses' Victoria.
That's true; ain't it, Mr. Slick? "'Guess so, sais I. "'Well then, I asked myself this here question: Can I sarve my fellow citizens best by bein' minister to Peach settlement, 'tendin' on a little village of two thousand souls, and preachin' my throat sore, or bein' special minister to Saint Jimses, and sarvin' our great Republic and its thirteen millions?
That's true; ain't it, Mr. Slick? "'Guess so, sais I. "'Well then, I asked myself this here question: Can I sarve my fellow citizens best by bein' minister to Peach settlement, 'tendin' on a little village of two thousand souls, and preachin' my throat sore, or bein' special minister to Saint Jimses, and sarvin' our great Republic and its thirteen millions?
This brings in his second in command; and sais he, 'Pray walk in here, if you please, Sir, and he led me into a little plain, stage-coach-house lookin' room, with nothin' but a table and two or three chairs in it; and says he, 'Who shall I say, Sir? "'The Honourable Mr. Slick, sais I, 'Attache of the American Legation to the court of Saint Jimses' Victoria.
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