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Many's the time I've seen that gentleman keepin' two or three of 'em settin' round the breakfast-table after the rest had swallered their meal, and the things was cleared off, and Bridget was a-waitin' to get the cloth away, and there that little man would set, with a tumbler of sugar and water, what he used to call O Sukray, a-talkin' and a-talkin', and sometimes he would laugh, and sometimes the tears would come into his eyes, which was a kind of grayish blue eyes, and there he'd set and set, and my boy Benjamin Franklin hangin' round and gettin' late for school and wantin' an excuse, and an old gentleman that's one of my boarders a-listenin' as if he wa'n't no older than my Benj.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858