John Paul's book: moral and instructive: consisting of travels, tales, poetry, and like fabrications . eedom of manners and a gen-erally negligent air obtained, the only drawback about it allbeing that your vis-a-vis, at dinner, stranger though he be,was permitted to put his feet up on the table, and you hadno right to remonstrate so long as he actually did not plantthe leather on your plate. Taximagulas dined there becausehe hates conventionalities; I because of its cheapness. Onthis occasion the waiter had just brought cigars, and conver-sation flagging for the moment, I, by way of instillin
John Paul's book: moral and instructive: consisting of travels, tales, poetry, and like fabrications . eedom of manners and a gen-erally negligent air obtained, the only drawback about it allbeing that your vis-a-vis, at dinner, stranger though he be,was permitted to put his feet up on the table, and you hadno right to remonstrate so long as he actually did not plantthe leather on your plate. Taximagulas dined there becausehe hates conventionalities; I because of its cheapness. Onthis occasion the waiter had just brought cigars, and conver-sation flagging for the moment, I, by way of instilling fresh-ness and vigor into it, ventured the remark above me premise that Taximagulas hated the smell of clover. Besides, continued that philosopher, blowing a greatcloud of smoke from out between his beard, and giving avicious after-puff which sent it Mhirling and spinning inscattered spirals to the ceiling, the idea is not heard the remark before. Its Cowper. I made answer :— Its feet take hold on the eternal fast-nesses of truth nevertheless ; God made the country. 518. THE CHARMS OF COUNTRY LIFE DISCUSSED. 519 If he did he made it for coimtrjmen, growled Taximag-ulas, biting the nether end of his Reina Victoria so savagelythat the sparks flew from the lighted one in a meteoricshower. But what does that prove after all V It proves that God made the country, I modestly our discussions I always confine myself to the plainestpossible propositions. But as an argument for the superiority of the country itproves nothing, rejoined Taximagulas. The same thingmay be said of fish and chowder, but for all that who eats tom-cods uncooked? God made potatoes, too, and man madepots—but we eat the vegetable boiled and give God raw material furnished, all else is left to our own inge-nuity and common-sense. God made the country, true, buthe made it to make towns of—and made man to make em. It was an unusually long speech for Taximagulas, wh
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