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 selves, and when to say it, in order to pass for very brilliant fellows, and to attract the attention of all around the table.

They were debating in a lively manner.

Grocer Vrba was praising the latest article in the National Gazette, entitled: “Well, Bohemian people, judge for yourselves!” (Our people,—reader, pardon your author’s precision in reporting,—have to be the superior stern judges of all the steps of their representatives. Our people are an enlightened nation, who, with their sound instinct, will find out what is for their good, and what will harm them. Our people have long ago seen through the cowardly, degenerate politics of the impoverished ruling party. Our people will drive the party before the judge’s seat, and will judge it. They will find determined, energetic men for an extreme opposition, and they will thunder at the Bohemian Diet in quite a different voice. Our people will also send different people to Vienna. There they will speak in quite a