Visitor: I beg pardon, gentlemen, for calling you boys—but really that is the title by which you are generally considered is it not? Chang and Eng: N… - Chang and Eng Bunker

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Visitor: I beg pardon, gentlemen, for calling you boys—but really that is the title by which you are generally considered is it not? Chang and Eng: Never in England—in this country sometimes. Visitor: But why not England? Chang: Boy is a boy there—a servant boy—cook boy—school boy— Eng: And a young gentleman is a young gentleman. Visitor: Well, I am glad you have set me right in this matter—my mistake was of the head, not of the heart. Chang: Oh yes, I dare say—people don't think when they speak of the Siamese twins that they are young men twenty years of age. Eng: Suppose you call a young gentleman of you acquaintance, boy—won't he resent the insult? Visitor: True—true—and why should not the Siamese young gentlemen resent such an epithet?