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For my part, I should have taken it as far less an insult to be styled

"fellow," "clown," or "buarb (it was a linen blouse, with checked shirt and striped

pantaloons, a chip hat on h hickory stick in my

hand) very fairly entitled me As the case stood, my temper darted at

once to the opposite pole; not friend, but ene about

"Co

"No," answered I "If I can do anything for you without too much

trouble to myself, say so But recollect, if you please, that you are

not speaking to an acquaintance, much less a friend!"

"Uponathis hat, he h

of sarcash of doubtful courtesy to

render any resentnize a little mistake If I may take the liberty to suppose it,

you, sir, are probably one of the aesthetic--or shall I rather say

ecstatic?--laborers, who have planted themselves hereabouts This is

your forest of Arden; and you are either the banished Duke in person,