Show SOME REMiNISCENCES I Councilor Scanmii Is Often Talccn I for an Englinhman I Cbuncilor Seaman the patriarch of the upper house of the assembly Is I very English In appearance and is often mistaken for a regenerated son of John Bull Som naturalization II story came up among some of the members one evening and one turned to Seaman and asked when he was 1 I naturalized when to the surprise of all that gentlerhan claimed t have been born in the Empire state He owned however that he had been taken for English several hundred times in his life One Incident he relates re-lates happened in the early days in Utah when a man with a mule team was considered rich He was walking 0 < w t one day towards Salt Lake when he I was overtaken by a man in a wagon who took him in and after the two had become acauainted began abusing America from alpha to omega In true Godsavethequeen style When he had done so to his hearts content he turned around to his patient listener and asked from what part of England he came and was taken aback to find he had been pouring such rank assertions asser-tions Into the ears of a native Another An-other time a man who was going to Ensiand asked if he could not gather uo some genealogical data there for Mr Seaman and was surprised to find that In order to trace back the genealogy gene-alogy for several hundred years he would have to go to New York state As a queer coincidence Councilor Booth stated that he is often taken for a southerner notwithstanding he was English all over until he became an American citizen He also relates several amusing anecdotes of being mistaken He can speak the broad Yorkshire dialect with perfect accent and says that if he meets a person who has just come over he can talk with him in a way that will remind him of his home He once met an old ladv in Provo in front of his house and in the broadest of Yorkshire dialect dia-lect she asked him where a certain person could be found Mr Booth relapsing re-lapsing into his old speech told her and It was some time before she could be convinced that she had not been talking to one lately landed |