We have to pay heavy port dues to keep 'em up, and pay interest on capital.

The worst of it is, too, while we pay for all this, we hante got the direction of the works." "If you have paid for all these things," said I, "you had better lay claim to Liverpool.

Like the disputed territory (to which it now appears, you knew you had no legal or equitable claim), it is probable you will have half of it ceded to you, for the purpose of conciliation.
I admire this boast of yours uncommonly.

It reminds me of the conversation we had some years ago, about the device on your "naval button," of the eagle holding an anchor in its claws--that national emblem of ill-directed ambition and vulgar pretension." "I thank you for that hint," said Mr.Slick, "I was in jeest like; but there is more in it, for all that, than you'd think.

It ain't literal fact, but it is figurative truth.