Also he was a fierce faddist and a pillar of strength to the advanced wing of the Radical party.
"What is your name ?" asked a clerk.
"Look you here, young man," he answered, "don't have the impertinence to try your airs and graces on with me.

Seeing that you've owed me 24 pounds 3s.6d.for the last three years for goods supplied, you know well enough what my name is, or if you don't I will show it to you at the bottom of a county court summons." "It is my duty to ask you your name," responded the disconcerted clerk when the laughter which this sally provoked had subsided.
"Oh, very well.

Stephen Strong is my name, and I may tell you that it is good at the bottom of a cheque for any reasonable amount.

Well, I'm here to go bail for that young man.

I know nothing of him except that I put him on his back in a ditch in an argument we had one night last winter in the reading-room yonder.