A priest! After going round the world three times, to come home and be hailed as the father of a priest! Don't let him come near me, or I'll sacrifice him." "Now, Major, you are very proud of him," his good wife answered, as he shook his stick.

"How could he help taking orders when he was under orders to do so?
And his views are sound to the last degree, most strictly correct and practical--at least except as to celibacy." "He holds that his own mother ought never to have been born! Miss Wood, do you call that practical ?" "I have no acquaintance with such things," I replied; "we had none of them in California.

But is it practical, Major Hockin--of course you know best in your engineering--I mean, would it not require something like a tunnel for the river and the railway to run on the same ground ?" "Why, bless me! That seems to have escaped my notice.

You have not been with old Uncle Sam for nothing.

We shall have to appoint you our chief engineer.".