III.
LIVE YANKEES.
Live Yankees are chuck full of karakter and sissing hot with enterprize and curiosty.
In bild we find them az lean az a hunter's dorg, with a parched countenance, reddy for a grin, or for a sorrow; ov elaastick step: thortful, but not abstrakted; pashunt, bekauze cunnin; ever watchful; slo to anger; avoiding a fight; but rezolute at bay.
In dress alwuz slik, but not stuck up; their harness alwuz betrays them wherever they go.
The oil ov their langwidge iz their dezire tew pleze, and their greezy words foreshadder a proffit.
They are natral mechanicks; the histry ov man's necessitys iz the histry ov their invenshuns.
The Live Yankee haz no hum; hiz luv ov invenshun breeds a luv ov change, and wharever a human trail shows itself we find him pantin on the trak.
He never gits sick at the stummuk in a furrin land, or grows sentermental; the buty ov a river tew him iz its capacity for a steambote; its sloping banks checker into bildin lots, and its poetry waters might do the drudgery ov a cottin mill.