And both understand Mm, and know that his speech is right.

13. He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,

He walks among the Congress, and one representative says to another, Here is our equal, appearing and new.

14. Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,

And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain, and the sailors that he has followed the sea,

And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,

And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,

No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it, or has followed it,

No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.

15. The English believe he comes of their English stock,

A Jew to the Jew he seems—a Russ to the Russ—usual and near, removed from none.

16. Whoever he looks at in the traveller's coffee-house claims him,

The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure;

The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi, or St. Lawrence, or Sacramento, or Hudson, or Paumanok Sound, claims him.