"This subject reminds me of a queer fellow that went by the name of _Paddy Whack_, who came over from a place called _Knockecroghery_, as I think and palmed himself upon a good-natured kinsman of mine, whom we familiarly called _Uncle Sam_. Pat, ... was grandson, by the mother's side, to the well known humorist, _Paddy from Cork_, who wore his coat buttoned behind to keep his belly warm; and the old man was so pleased with his mode of eating buttermilk without any teeth, that he insisted upon having him christened after his name.... So he took up the business of patriotism, and fastened himself upon _Uncle Sam_, who was a liberal, good-hearted old fellow, that kept open house to all comers, and received _Pat_ with kindness and hospitality, because he was poor and an exile."[77] The first foreigner to use the term was apparently W. Faux, who in a book written between 1819 and 1823 frequently employed it. "Almost all Americans," he quotes a Mr. Perry as saying, "are boys in everything but vice and folly! In their eyes _Uncle Sam_ is a right slick, mighty fine, smart, big man."[78] On November 24, 1821, Hezekiah Niles wrote: "I am, however, diverted from the subject I meant to speak of--that is, the 'ways and means' to keep the wheels of the government a-going; a most serious concern, especially to those who live upon the treasury, or expect to become rich by _plucking_ 'Uncle Sam's' great grey goose."[79] In the _Baltimore Patriot_ of November 11, 1824, appeared the following: "ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL CARICATURE. ... It is a proof sheet of a print entitled--'CAUCUS CURS _in full_ YELL, _or a_ WAR WHOOP _to saddle on the_ PEOPLE _a_ PAPPOOSE PRESIDENT.' In the background stands the President's house, on the right of which '_Uncle Sam's Treasury pap house_,' with its '_amalgamation-tool department_'" (p. 2-2). In 1826 Mrs. Anne Royall, an eccentric lady who wrote several books of travel, not lacking in sharp hits, remarked: "It often happened while in Washington, that I met with 'uncle Sam's' men, as they call themselves. Walking in the capitol square one day, I stepped up to a man whom I found there at work, and asked him whom he worked for, (meaning his employer, from whom I wished to obtain some information,) 'me,' said the fellow, 'I work for uncle Sam,' in a tone of unqualified impudence. No matter where you meet those understrappers you may distinguish them by their unparalleled effrontery."[80] One of Paulding's innumerable skits was "The History of Uncle Sam and his Boys: a Tale for Politicians," originally published in the _New York Mirror_ in 1831. In this we read: