Roughing it, Part 7 by Mark Twain — Read

In my diary of our third day in Honolulu, I find this:

I am probably the most sensitive man in Hawaii to-night -- especially about sitting down in the presence of my betters. I have ridden fifteen or twenty miles on horse-back since 5 P. M. and to tell the honest truth, I have a delicacy about sitting down at all.