"I'll tell you what, Master Bunce, it won't do to take natur in vain. If
you can show me a better painter than natur, from your pairts, I give
up; but until that time, I say that any man who thinks to give the woods
a different sort of face from what God give 'em, ought to be licked for
his impudence if nothing else."
The pedler ventured again to expostulate; but the argument having been
considered conclusive against him, he was made to hold his peace, while
the prosecutor proceeded.
"Now then, Mr. Chairman, as I was saying--here is a sample of the kind
of stuff he thinks to impose upon us. Look now at this here article, and
I reckon it's jist as good as any of the rest, and say whether a little
touch of Lynch's law, an't the very thing for the Yankee!"
Holding up the devoted calico to the gaze of the assembly, with a single
effort of his strong and widely-distended arms, he rent it asunder with
little difficulty, the sweep not terminating, until the stuff, which,
by-the-way, resigned itself without struggle or resistance to its fate,
had been most completely and evenly divided.
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