'The right reverend, the Lord Bishop of Slickville:' wouldn't it look well on the back of a letter, eh?
or your signature to one sent to me, signed 'Joshua Slickville.' It sounds better, that, than 'Old Minister,' don't it ?" "Oh, if you go for to talk that way, Sam, I am done; but I will shew you that the Tories are the men to govern this great nation.

A Tory I may say '_noscitur a sociis_.'" "What in natur is that, when it's biled and the skin took off ?" asked Mr.Slick.
"Why is it possible you don't know that?
Have you forgotten that common schoolboy phrase ?" "Guess I do know; but it don't tally jist altogether nohow, as it were.
Known as a Socialist, isn't it ?" "If, Sir," said Mr.Hopewell, with much earnestness, "if instead of ornamenting your conversation with cant terms, and miserable slang, picked up from the lowest refuse of our population, both east and west, you had cultivated your mind, and enriched it with quotations from classical writers, you would have been more like an Attache, and less like a peddling clockmaker than you are." "Minister," said Mr.Slick, "I was only in jeest, but you are in airnest.

What you have said is too true for a joke, and I feel it.

I was only a sparrin'; but you took off the gloves, and felt my short ribs in a way that has given me a stitch in the side.

It tante fair to kick that way afore you are spurred.