"Is it big?"
"Is what big, sir?"
"Why, the household! How many storeys is ther to it besides the attic and basement? Hev it got a mansard?"
"The Household, sir, dwells in royal palaces of great dimensions. It is the royal family and their attendants over whom the Guards watch."
"That's the Black Guards, ain't it?"
"No, sir; you are thinking of the Black Watch, a name of the Forty-second Highlanders."
"D'ye hear that, you Sambo? You orter go and git draafted inter that corpse, and go araound breakin' the wimmin's hyearts in a cullud flannel petticut."
"There are no negroes, sir, in the Black Watch," interposed the corporal.
"See heah, yoh Yankee Canajiun," answered Mr. Maguffin with feeling, "fo' de law ob this yeah kintry I'se jess es good a man as yoh is. So yoh jess keep yoh Samboo in yoh mouf atter this. Specks yoh'se got a mighty low down name yohsef if t'was ony knowed by respeckable pussons."
"My name, Mr. Julius Sneezer Disgustus Quackenboss, my name is Pawkins, great grandson of Hercules Leonidas Pawkins, as was briggidier ginral and aijicamp to George Washington, when he drummed the haousehold trooeps, and the hull o' the derned British army, out'n Noo Yohk to the toon o' 'Yankee Doodle.'"