"Oh! if you want to deal with ladies who buy chains and rings, the Nest House is the place. My woman wouldn't know what to do with sich things, and don't set herself up for a fine lady at all. That chap who has just gone for the sheep is the only great man we have about this farm." "Ja, ja; he ist a nople in a dirty shirt: ja, ja; why hast he dem pig feelin's?" "I believe you have named them just as they ought to be, _pig's_ feelin's. It's because he wishes to thrust his own snout all over the trough, and is mad when he finds anybody else's in the way. We're getting to have plenty of such fellows up and down the country, and an uncomfortable time they give us. Boys, I _do_ believe it will turn out, a'ter all, that Josh is an Injin!" "I _know_ he is," answered the oldest of the two sons, a lad of nineteen; "where else should he be so much of nights and Sundays, but at their trainin's?--and what was the meanin' of the calico bundle I saw under his arm a month ago, as I told you on at the time?" "If I find it out to be as you say, Harry, he shall tramp off of this farm. I'll have no Injins here!" "Vell I dought I dit see an olt Injin in a hut up yonder ast by der woots!" put in my uncle, innocently. "Oh! that is Susquesus, an Onondago; he is a true Injin, and a gentleman; but we have a parcel of the mock gentry about, who are a pest and an eye-sore to every honest man in the country. Half on 'em are nothing but thieves in mock Injin dresses. The law is ag'in 'em, right is ag'in 'em, and every true friend of liberty in the country ought to be ag'in 'em." "Vhat ist der matter in dis coontry? I hear in Europe how America ist a free lant, ant how efery man hast his rights; but since I got here dey do nothin' but talk of barons, and noples, and tenants, and arisdograts, and all der bat dings I might leaf behint me, in der olt worlt." "The plain matter is, friend, that they who have got little, en_vy_ them that's got much; and the struggle is to see which is the strongest. On the one side is the law, and right, and bargains, and contracts; and on the other thousands--not of dollars, but of men. Thousands of voters; d'ye understand?" "Ja, ja--I oonderstands; dat ist easy enough. But vhy do dey dalk so much of noples and arisdograts?--ist der noples and arisdograts in America?" "Well, I don't much understand the natur' of sich things; there sartainly is a difference in men, and a difference in their fortun's, and edications, and such sort of things." "Und der law, den, favours der rich man at der cost of der poor, in America, too, does it? Und you haf arisdograts who might not pay taxes, and who holt all der offices, and get all der pooblic money, and who ist petter pefore de law, in all dings, dan ast dem dat be not arisdograts? Is it so?" Miller laughed outright, and shook his head at this question, continuing to examine the trinkets the whole time.