"I feel sure there's enough up there for every one to have a bite." "How are you going to get it ?" some one said.
"Why, go right up and take it!" he exclaimed.

"You know, my friends, that all through the Civil War I had the misfortune to be Vice-President, which is about the most useless, sit-still-and-do-nothing office in this country.

All those four years I wanted to go to the front and do something.

I wanted to be a general or a private with a gun.

The war is past, thank God, but I haven't got over that feeling yet, and now I want to lead an attack on those Egyptians! Back there over the singers' gallery I think I see a scuttle that leads up into the loft.