Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Americans” in page 106 of Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches:
...ut the veturino charged about twice the usual price, and though the man afterwards reduced his demand to a reasonable figure Lowell would not go with him at all, and told him that such practices made Americans dislike the Italian people.
It is to be feared that a strange Italian might fare just as badly in America.
Readers of Lowell's Fireside travels will
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