Vincent, Trinidad, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Dominica, Nevis,
Nassau, Eleuthera and Inagua, Martinique, Guadalupe, Saint Thomas
(Danish West Indies), Curacao and Tobago, England, Ireland,
Scotland, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Russia, France, Spain, Andorra, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany,
Italy, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Servia, Turkey, Canary Islands,
Syria, Palestine, Arabia, India (from Tuticorin to Lahore), China,
Japan, Egypt, Sierra Leone, South Africa and--the High Seas.
"Where you born, boy?" I had run across a wrinkled old negro who
had worked more than thirty years for the P.R.R.
"'Deed ah don' know, boss,"
"Oh, come! Don't know where you were born?" "Fo' Gawd, boss, ah's
tellin' yo de truff. Ah don know, 'cause ah born to sea."
"Well, what country are you a subject of?"
"Truly ah cahn't say, boss."
"Well what nationality was your father?"
"Ah neveh see him, sah." "Well then where the devil did you first
land after you were born?"
"'Deed ah cahn't say, boss. T'ink it were one o' dem islands.
Reckon ah's a subjec' o' de' worl', boss."
Weeks afterward the population of Uncle Sam's ten by fifty-mile
strip of tropics was found to have been on February first, 1912,
62,810. No, anxious reader, I am not giving away inside
information; the source of my remarks is the public prints.
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