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 ¬follow the custom of nature, the beasts of the field know where they are, and have but one suit." ¬I was too much disconcerted by this appa- rently strange behaviour to attempt any inter- ruption of this mortifying dispatch, but when it was quite out of reach I could not help saying, that I hoped I should be pardoned for wishing, if the expense would not be an objection, that I might be furnished with what we called, in England, the dress of a gentleman, instead of this young ba?, ber , s apparel, as I had no doubt there were different degrees in a country which his father had described to me as so highly civilized. ¬" Undoubtedly," said Cathmor, (for this was the name of my companion,) " there are many degrees among us, more numerous, perhaps, than in any other nation, but there are no distinctions in our ordinary dresses; we have gentlemen, as you say you have in England, and, ¬as ¬ /n