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in Sketches of America 59: Now I reckon you do not know that my boss would not have a single ugly or clever gentleman come to his store, if he cut coloured men; now my boss, I guess, ordered me to turn out every coloured man from the store right away, and if I did not he would send me off slick. Sketches of America 249: Drinking [...] is effected by individuals taking their solitary ‘eye openers,’ ‘toddy,’ and ‘phlegm dispersers’ at the bar. Sketches of America 208: One remark made by a leading grumbler [...] ‘Curse the country; it would be a good country enough if it was free from dirty, cheating Yankies’. Sketches of America 191: ‘The Fountain Inn’ is a miserable log-house, or what you would call a dog-hole. Sketches of America 249: Drinking [...] is effected by individuals taking their solitary ‘eye openers,’ ‘toddy,’ and ‘phlegm dispersers’ at the bar. Sketches of America 192: I guess whiskey is all the feed we have on sale. Sketches of America 249: At ten o’clock, nearly all have gone to bed, or what they call ‘turned in.’. Sketches of America 240: Each gave vent in the following language. [...] ‘It would have been of no small account if the niggar had been whipt to death.’ ‘I always serve my b-----d niggars that way.’. Sketches of America 140: Give old Sour Kraut (Hiester) a hundred and thirty. Sketches of America 13: He replied that the only business which was good for anything [...] in New York was shaving, meaning the buying and selling of bank-notes. in Sketches of America 152: mayor: Yellow boy! what have you to say against this charge, are you guilty or not guilty? prisoner: Not guilty, gentiman .