'And our rattle-down coaches are so mighty slow; you don't have such fixin's at the North.'
'No, sir; but why do you suppose I'm from the North? I've passed for a Southerner to-day.'
'Oh, I know you Yankees all to pieces; I've lived among you.'
'At college, I suppose?'
'Yes, at Harvard.'
'You graduated early.'
'No, I didn't graduate, I left—left for my health. Ha! ha I' and he broke into a merry fit of laughter, in which several of his companions joined.
'Taken with sudden illness, as you were at the turkey-match, to-day?' I inquired good humoredly, and in a tone that could not give offence.
'Yes, the same disease, I swear. Ha! ha!'
'Ha! ha!' echoed his companions,