“This is a world of perplexities and disappointments; there is one thing I have always wanted to ascertain, but latterly have quite despaired of it; therefore I know how to sympathize with you.”
“What is that, Mr. K.?”
“Where Hannibal got his vinegar.”
“If I live, I mean to ask Uncle Sam; he thinks he’s great on the classics; that’ll stick him.”
“I’ll get you all the lilies you want, boys.”
“That is not what we want; we want to have the boat, and get them ourselves.”
“I can appreciate that moral sentiment, Will Gunton, just as I receive greater enjoyment hauling up this fish,”—pulling in a pickerel,—“than you do from merely looking at me.”
“O, ye gods and little fishes, if he is not enough to provoke a saint.”
“I assent to that opinion likewise, for I vexed Dr. Woods yesterday.”