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Updated: June 12, 2025
Some people's voices excoriate you, Laura's was soft and soothing. "Well!" "Don't say any more to to Mr. Sampson about names." "Oh, dear! hateful!" "Delphine, be thankful it's no worse!" "How could it be worse, unless it were Hog-and-Hominy? I never knew anything so utterly ridiculous! America! Columbia! Yankee-Doodle! I'd rather it had been Abraham!"
"Boston is a Yankee town, and so is Philadelphy;" considering which, I assure you I find the latter quite a civilized place. The above quotation is from "Yankee-doodle," the National Anthem of the Americans, which I will sing to you some day when I am within hearing. We have just returned from church.
If thar's a thousand Injuns, or the half of 'em, thar's meat for all of you. Whar's Ikey Jones, the fifer? Let's have Yankee-Doodle and the Rogue's March for, by the etarnal Old Scratch, all them white men that ar'n't a-horse-back in twenty-five minutes, are rogues worse than red Injuns! Hurrah for Kentucky!"
Mr Chipman, from Michigan, thus whistles Yankee-doodle, with the usual thorough-base accompaniment of self-conceit: "Reflecting that from three millions we had increased to twenty millions, we could not resist the conclusion, that Yankee enterprise and vigour he used the term Yankee in reference to the whole country were destined to spread our possessions and institutions over the whole country.
Ned Land whistled "Yankee-doodle" between his teeth, thrust his hands into his pockets, and turned his back upon us. But Captain Nemo watched the troop of cetacea, and, addressing me, said: "I was right in saying that whales had natural enemies enough, without counting man. These will have plenty to do before long.
Delme was not naturally a rude man, but as he turned away, he hummed something very like Yankee-doodle. And then the moon got up; and Sir Henry felt lonely and sentimental. He leant over the vessel's side, and watched it pictured on the ocean, and quivering as the transient billow swept onwards. And he thought of home, and Emily.
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