Every one came to us then, to get his bill through, or his appropriation watched.
We were hard at work all the time.

You see, one can't keep the run of three hundred men without some trouble.

My husband used to make lists of them in books with a history of each man and all he could learn about him, but I carried it all in my head." "Do you mean that you could get them all to vote as you pleased ?" asked Madeleine.
"Well! we got our bills through," replied Mrs.Baker.
"But how did you do it?
did they take bribes ?" "Some of them did.

Some of them liked suppers and cards and theatres and all sorts of things.

Some of them could be led, and some had to be driven like Paddy's pig who thought he was going the other way.