You have gone about peddling your wooden nutmegs until you have got yourself into Congress, and now you pull them out of your pockets and not only want us to take them at your own price, but you lecture us on our sins if we don't.

Well! we don't mind your doing that at home.
Abuse us as much as you like to your constituents.

Get as many votes as you can.

But don't electioneer here, because we know you intimately, and we've all been a little in the wooden nutmeg business ourselves." Senator Clinton and Senator Krebs chuckled high approval over this punishment of poor French, which was on the level of their idea of wit.
They were all in the nutmeg business, as Ratcliffe said.

The victim tried to make head against them; he protested that his nutmegs were genuine; he sold no goods that he did not guarantee; and that this particular article was actually guaranteed by the national conventions of both political parties.
"Then what you want, Mr.French, is a common school education.