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I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and so on. They are all upper-crust here.[580:1]

Sam Slick In England.[580:2] Chap. xxiv.

Circumstances alter cases.

The Old Judge. Chap. xv.

[580:1] Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand.—Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850.)

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.—N. P. Willis: Necessity for a Promenade Drive.

[580:2] "Sam Slick" first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835.