Excerpt from Uncle Sam at Home I've heard that you have a fence round England to keep people from falling overboard during the night," said one of Uncle Sam's boys to me, with that exasperating deliberation with which the family is wont to administer a take-down. I had been dilating 011 the grandeurs of the British Empire, "whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth in one continuous and unbroken strain of martial airs," whose argosies crowd every port, and whose flag, unfurled in a hundred lands, is everywhere the symbol of constitutional liberty. As I swelled with patriotic pride, this was the pin with which the representative of the biggest nation on earth pricked me. It is anomalous that in caricatures Uncle Sam is invariably represented as lean and gaunt, while John Bull appears as a stout, burly giant. For Sam delights in bulk. He is nothing if he is not big. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.