YANKEE NICKNAMES.
The traveller who journeys westward in our favoured land (says "Harper’s Monthly”) should make up his mind to accept without demur such military or judicial rank and title as may be conferred upon him. He may be quite sure, too, that when his brevet has once been settled west of the Missouri, by proper authority, it will cling to him as long as he remains in that region. " I don’t half like,” once remarked a Scotch fellow-traveller of the writer to a friendly group at Denver, “ the promotion backwa-r-d which I receive. East of Chicago I was colonel, at Chicago I was major, at Omaha a man called me captain, and offered me dinner at 35 cents,” One of the group after a careful survey of the face and figure before him, the kindly yet foreign expression, and iron grey whiskers, replied, “ You ain’t colonel wuth a cent. I allow that you’re Jedge !” And “ Jedge ” he was from that time forth. Nobody called him anything else. Newly-made acquaintances, landlords, stage-drivers, conductors, used this title, until his companions .began to feel as if they had known him all his life in that capacity.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2125, 14 January 1880, Page 3
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194YANKEE NICKNAMES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2125, 14 January 1880, Page 3
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