Original (English)

By Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Greek Text)—GREEK PROVERB. Tell you what, report my speeches if you like, but if you put my talk in, I’ll give you the mitten, as sure as you are born.—SLICKVILLE TRANSLATION London, July 3rd, 1843. MY DEAR HOPKINSON, I have spent so many agreeable hours at Edgeworth heretofore, that my first visit on leaving London, will be to your hospitable mansi