are pitch-pine Yankees and white-pine Yankees. We don't
talk about the inherited differences of men quite as freely, perhaps,
as they do in the Old World, but republicanism doesn't alter the laws
of physiology. We have a native aristocracy, a superior race, just as
plainly marked by nature as of a higher and finer grade than the common
run of people as the white pine is marked in its form, its stature, its
bark, its delicate foliage, as belonging to the nobility of the forest;
and the pitch pine, stubbed, rough, coarse-haired, as of the plebeian
order. Only the strange thing is to see in what a capricious way our
natural nobility is distributed. The last born nobleman I have seen,
I saw this morning; he was pulling a rope that was fastened to a Maine
schooner loaded with lumber. I should say he was about twenty years
old, as fine a figure of a young man as you would ask to see, and with
a regular Greek outline of countenance, waving hair, that fell as if
a sculptor had massed it to copy, and a complexion as rich as a red
sunset. I have a notion that the State of Maine breeds the natural
nobility in a larger proportion than some other States, but they spring
up in all sorts of out-of-the-way places. The young fellow I saw this
morning had on an old flannel shirt, a pair of trowsers that meant hard
work, and a cheap cloth cap pushed back on his head so as to let the
large waves of hair straggle out over his forehead; he was tugging at
his rope with the other sailors, but upon my word I don't think I have
seen a young English nobleman of all those whom I have looked upon that
answered to the notion of "blood" so well as this young fellow did. I
suppose if I made such a levelling confession as this in public, people
would think I was looking towards being the labor-reform candidate for
President. But I should go on and spoil my prospects by saying that
I don't think the white-pine Yankee is the more generally prevailing
growth, but rather the pitch-pine Yankee.

--The Member of the Haouse seemed to have been getting a dim idea that
all this was not exactly flattering to the huckleberry districts. His
features betrayed the growth of this suspicion so clearly that the
Master replied to his look as if it had been a remark. [I need hardly
say that this particular member of the General Court was a pitch-pine
Yankee of the most thoroughly characterized aspect and flavor.]

--Yes, Sir,--the Master continued,--Sir being anybody th