“I’m afraid——”
“Well, I ain’t, b’gosh! We was fools to come inter this air heathen country; but, naow I’m here, I ain’t afraid uv anything!”
“Be careful! We may get into trouble. Look out what you say.”
“Jee thutter! I’m a Yank, an’ I’m a Yank to the backbone! I won’t be muzzled!”
“But it is best to be cautious. If Frank had said he was English——”
“I’d jumped him, an’ I’d never had anything to do with him arterward. The English may be all right; but that ain’t any reason why a Yankee should be ashamed to say what he is. You’d never ketch an Englishman sayin’ he was anything else, by gum! They’re praoud because they’re English, but there ain’t one uv them that’s a darn bit praouder uv it than I be because I’m a Yankee.”
“Policy, my boy——”
“Policy be gol derned!”
“You know the English say that Americans boast too much.”
“Don’t keer ef they do! I’ve seen some Englishmen in America that didn’t do a thing but brag.”