Aunt Goosey looks at the next oldest goosey, and ducks her head, as if she was a goin' through a gate, and then they all come to their feet, and the goslins come to their feet, and they all toddle off to the drawin' room together.
"The decanters now take the "grand tour" of the table, and, like most travellers, go out with full pockets, and return with empty ones.

Talk has a pair of stays here, and is laced up tight and stiff.

Larnin' is pedantic; politics is onsafe; religion ain't fashionable.

You must tread on neutral ground.

Well, neutral ground gets so trampled down by both sides, and so plundered by all, there ain't any thing fresh or good grows on it, and it has no cover for game nother.
"Housundever, the ground is tried, it's well beat, but nothin' is put up, and you get back to where you started.