Why did you give up riding and take to cooking?
What are your qualifications as a cook any way ?' 'Qualifications!' he replied, 'why, don't you know I've got varicose veins ?' My caller's qualifications are of an equally negative description, though not of a physical kind.

He is one of the young Micawbers, to whom the Department from its first inception has been the something which was to turn up.

He had, of course, testimonials which in any other country would have commanded success by their terms and the position of the signatories, but which in Ireland only illustrate the charity with which we condone our moral cowardice under the name of good nature.

I am glad when this interview closes.
One more type--a Nationalist Member of Parliament! He does not often darken the door of a Government office--they all have the same structural defect, no front stairs--he never has asked and never thought he would ask anything from the Government.

But he is interested in some poor fishermen of County Clare who pursue their calling under cruel disadvantages for want of the protection from the Atlantic rollers which a small breakwater would afford.