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OUR RELATIONS WITH MEXICO.
“Our relations with Mexico!” said Mrs. Partington,
contemplatively, and her glance turned upward to the
wall, where the portrait of the deceased corporal, in
rigid pasteboard, looked straight forward, as if indicating
a bee-line of duty that she should fellow, — a sort of
pictorial cynosure, to which she always looked for guidance.
“Our relations with Mexico!” said she; “some
of the poor creaturs, maybe, left there in the late hospitalities,
too poor to get back. If I was President Pierce,
now, I 'd send right away and bring 'em all home by
express. The Mexicans had better not trouble any of
our relations, I can tell 'em!”
Of course she could tell 'em. There was no doubt of
it. Mrs. Sled believed she could, and Ike, who was
busy in transforming the old lady's new clothes-stick
into a bat, did n't say a word. If there is a weakness in
Mrs. P.'s character, — and as a chronicler we should be
false to our trust to say that there was not, — that
weakness is love for her relations; continually manifesting
itself in blue yarn stockings and souchong tea.
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