These, with a fowl, which I believe has been procured honestly, are to constitute our Christmas dinner.
It is very strange what opposite opinions one hears about the condition of the poor.

Some persons say that there is no distress, others that it cannot be greater.

The fact is, the men were never better off, the women and children never so badly off.

Every man can have enough to eat and too much to drink by dawdling about with a gun.

As his home is cold and cheerless, when he is not on duty he lives at a pothouse.