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37 at their blue coats and gray trousers, I am a Union man. Whereupon they said, You are, are you? We want everything you have 5 we are Confeder- ates. Soon afterwards he met a party who wore gray coats and blue trousers, and they asked him what side he was on. I-Ie thought he would strike it right this time, and replied that he was a Confed- erate, whereupon they, being Union scouts, looted him. The third time he encountered a party, What side areyou on P said they. Looking at them for a long time, he at last exclaimed : Come now, boys, stop your foolishness, what side are you on ? Looking over the lists of guests I made some suggestions to the Judge and told him I thought I saw the name of a gentleman who would talk for the Boers, -pointing out the name of Hogeboom. 'Then he asked, Who will talk for the English ? I said, Unless we hear some more encouraging news from Buller to-night, lVIr.- Onderdonk will do very well. Pardon this strained allusion to the under dog! Well, I was instructed to speak 'about the in- Huence of Dutch Civilization. In doing so I must steer clear of the present situation as much as possible. I have seen the little fellow' tackle the big one before,'and know only too well the result. 'I feel that in this gallant fight, now going -on, the ultimate result must be like that which befell the Indian who lassoed' the locomotive out West. When the engineer saw him wheeled through 'space at the rate of forty miles an hour fast to his own lasso, he rested his head upon his hand, and watching from the window said, Indian, I admire your pluck, but d-- your judgment! You know,
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