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hence, if some English-speaker of the future should chance to disinter this book from the recesses of the British Museum or the Library of Congress, and should read these final paragraphs, I doubt not he will say--for the immortal soul of the language even anarchism cannot affect--"the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote V: Mr. Walkley reports that he has heard a Cockney policeman, speaking of a street row, "There's been a little scrappin'."] [Footnote W: "About a dozen ringers followed us into the church and stood around rubberin'." "Gettin' next to the new kinds o' saddles and rubber-neckin' to read the names on the tyres."--_Artie_. A writer in the New York _Sun_ says: "I first heard the term 'rubbernecks' in Arizona, about four years ago, applied to the throngs of onlookers in the gambling-houses, who strove to get a better view of the games in progress by stretching or bending their necks."] [Footnote X: "We didn't break into sassiety notes, but that cuts no ice in our set."--_Artie_.] [Footnote Y: Extract from a letter to the _Chicago Evening Post_: "I do not at all subscribe to the sneering remark of a talented author of my acquaintance, to the effect that there were not enough cultured people in Chicago to fill a grip-car. I asked him if he meant a grip-car and a trailer, and he said, 'No; just one car.' And I told him right there that I could not agree with him."] THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of America To-day, Observations and Reflections, by William Archer *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICA TO-DAY *** ***** This file should be named 7997.txt or 7997.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/7/9/9/7997/ Produced by Karen Dalrymple and PG Distributed Proofreaders Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is
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