This idiomatic exchange is perceptibly on the increase.

It arises from the travelling propensities of the Americans, and the constant intercourse mutually maintained by the inhabitants of the different States.

A droll or an original expression is thus imported and adopted, and, though not indigenous, soon becomes engrafted on the general stock of the language of the country."-- 3rd Series, p.

142.] "I was ready to bile right over, when as luck would have it, the rain stopt all of a sudden, the sun broke out o' prison, and I thought I never seed any thing look so green and so beautiful as the country did.

'Come,' sais I, 'now for a walk down the avenue, and a comfortable smoke, and if the man at the gate is up and stirrin', I will just pop in and breakfast with him and his wife.