Back of those men's time
the English are just simply foreigners, nothing more, nothing less;
they talk Danish, German, Norman French, and sometimes a mixture of
all three; back of THEM, they talk Latin, and ancient British,
Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions and
billions of pure savages that talk a gibberish that Satan himself
couldn't understand. The fact is, where you strike one man in the
English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful
swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. You
see, every country on earth has been overlaid so often, in the
course of a billion years, with different kinds of people and
different sorts of languages, that this sort of mongrel business
was bound to be the result in heaven."
"Sandy," says I, "did you see a good many of the great people
history tells about?"
"Yes--plenty. I saw kings and all sorts of distinguished people."
"Do the kings rank just as they did below?"
"No; a body can't bring his rank up here with him. Divine right is
a good-enough earthly romance, but it don't go, here. Kings drop
down to the general level as soon as they reach the realms of
grace. I knew Charles the Second very well--one of the most
popular comedians in the English section--draws first rate. There
are better, of course--people that were never heard of on earth--
but Charles is making a very good reputation indeed, and is
considered a rising man.
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