English Colony

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“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)