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'I'm sorry, he says, 'to lose me timper, he says, 'but, he says, 'afther all th' pretinded affection iv these people f'r us, he says, 'an' afther all we've done f'r thim in Alaska an' an' ivrywhere, he says, 'an' thim sellin' us coal whin they might've sold it to th' Spanyards if th' Spanyards'd had th' money, he says, 'to see th' conduct iv that coarse an' brutal Englishman 'Th' wan that won th' r-race? says I. 'Yes, he says.
'If all th' la-ads enthered into th' r- races with th' same spirit ye show now, I says, 'th' English flag'd be dhroopin' fr'm th' staff, an' Cyrus Bodley iv Wadham, Mass.,'d be paintin' th' stars an' sthripes on th' Nelson monnymint, I says. 'Whin we hated th' English, I says, 'an' a yacht r-race was li'ble to end in a war message fr'm the prisidint, we used to bate thim, I says.
Ye can't get me excited over th' throbbin' debate on th' location iv th' Orynocoo River or whether th' miners that go to Alaska f'r goold ar're buried be th' Canajeen or th' American authorities. Ye bet ye can't. But some day we'll be beat in a yacht r-race or done up at futball an' thin what Hogan call th' dogs iv war'll break out iv th' kennel an' divastate th' wurruld." "Well," said Mr.
Whin a sign iv th' effete aristocracy iv England done up sivral free-bor-rn Americans fr'm Boston in a fut r-race, me frind the Farthest North, he grabs his wan glass eye an' says he: 'Well r-run, Cambridge! he says; 'Well r-run, he says. An' 'Well r-run, whativer colledge ye're fr'm, says I, whin wan iv our la-ads jumped over a fence ahead iv some eager but consarvative English scholars."
"Do you mean others of our r-race?" he demanded haughtily. "Members of our own r-race who r-return to r-recover their home worlds from humans?" "Hell, no!" said Sergeant Madden dourly. "If you can get in contact with them and bring them back, they can have their former planets back and more besides if they'll defend 'em. We're stretched thin. We didn't come here to fight your fleet.
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