MARK TWAIN

woods where they came from they weren't used to much
mail matter.

They always occupied their seats at table a level hour
after breakfast, to be looked at, though they wore a weak
pretense of settling the affairs of empires, over their mail
—contracting brows, etc.

How N. Y. would squeeze the conceit out of those
poor little Congressmen.

There's a cherk and natty something about N. Y.
dress and carriage male and female which can't be imi-
tated by the outsider. On a railway, steamboat or else-
where there can always be a question as to where a
lady or gentleman hails from, unless from N. Y.—then
there is no question. Getting your millinery made by the
N. Y. milliner doesn't help—you can't fool anybody—
you're a provincial in disguise and any blind man can
see it.

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