A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . people are very scarce in this country, Iremarked. Indeed, sir, they are. My family is the only col-ored family I know of in Glasgow, and we are kind olonely, for the folks here gives us the cold my address, he added. Come and see me,will you? I will not have the time, I said, as I bade himgood-bye and hurried away to the train. He was theonly colored person I saw until reaching London, andthere only saw very
A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . people are very scarce in this country, Iremarked. Indeed, sir, they are. My family is the only col-ored family I know of in Glasgow, and we are kind olonely, for the folks here gives us the cold my address, he added. Come and see me,will you? I will not have the time, I said, as I bade himgood-bye and hurried away to the train. He was theonly colored person I saw until reaching London, andthere only saw very fow. While waiting for my train,I engaged in conversation with a man from far up inthe Highlands. -1 He expressed himself as beinggreatly surprised to learn I was a full-fledged Ameri-can. You dont have that nasal twang that mostYankees use,he said, and you dont use those ex-pressions, I guess and calculate. When our peoplego to America, he added, and remain only a shorttime, they come back guessing and calculating like aYankee. He became very much interested as I gave himsome account of our great railway system, and said: Eh! but you come from a wonderful Sterling Castle, Scotland. ?!
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