Pansies (Lawrence)/True Democracy

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TRUE DEMOCRACY
I wish I was a gentlemanas full of wet as a watering-canto whizz in the eye of a police-man—
But my dear fellow, my dear fellowcan it be that you still don't knowthat every man, whether high or lowis a gentleman if he thinks himself so?—
He is an' all, you bet 'e is!I bet I am.—You can 'old yer phizabaht it.—Yes, I'm a gent, an' Lizere, she's a lidy, aren't yer, old quizz?—
Of course I'm a lidy, what d'yer think?You mind who yer sayin' isn't lidies!All the hinglish is gentlemen an' lidies,like the King an' Queen, though they're up just a wink.—
—Of course you are, but let me sayI'm American, from New Orleans,and in my country, just over the way,we are all kings and queens!—
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