The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England, vol 1, page 1 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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, SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND.
BY THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
(Greek Text)--GREEK PROVERB.
Tell you what, report my speeches if you like, but if you put my talk in, I'll give you the mitten, as sure as you are born.--SLICKVILLE TRANSLATION
London, July 3rd, 1843.
MY DEAR HOPKINSON,
I have spent so many agreeable hours at Edgeworth heretofore, that my first visit on leaving London, will be to your hospitable mansion. In the meantime, I beg leave to introduce to you my "Attache," who will precede me several days. His politics are similar to your own; I wish I could say as much in favour of his humour. His eccentricities will stand in need of your indulgence; but if you can overlook these, I am not without hopes that his originality, quaint sayings, and queer views of things in England, will afford you some amusement. At all events, I feel assured you will receive him kindly; if not for his own merits, at least for the sake of
Yours always,
THE AUTHOR.
To EDMUND HOPKINSON ESQ. Edgeworth, Gloucestershire.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.