"My first is on the table, and under the table; my second is a kind of grain; my third and fourth combined, form what the most romantic people cannot well dispense with; and my whole is one of the United States."
"Let us see—California? no. Massachusetts will not do, nor Connecticut. Oh, I have it: it is Matrimony—not always a united state, however!"
"You think not, Ellen? Then here is a piece of advice for you, and to make it more emphatic and intelligible, I will write it upon a card."
man family wife.
"I have it! eureka!" cried Tom Bolton. "Be above meddling in a family between man and wife."
"Why are pens, ink, and paper like the fixed stars?"
"They are stationary."
"A gentleman visited a prisoner; and, pointing to him, said to the bystanders,
"'Brothers and sisters have I none;