Note 1 — Chapter I · A SURPRISE.

The Americans are not entitled to the credit or ridicule, whichever people may be disposed to bestow upon them, for the extraordinary phrases with which their conversation is occasionally embellished. Some of them have good classical authority. That of “pull-foot” may be traced to Euripides. “ἀναίρων ἐκ δώματων ποδὰ”