'Will we have a fine day?' 'If God shall.'
'Archaist, curse not thy friend!' he retorted, to a man who called him curst instead of crusty.
A man once used the phrase, 'I was trying to save his face.' 'But is he in any danger of losing it?' asked Socrates.
'Chided,' said one man, 'chode,' another. He disclaimed all acquaintance with either form.
A person who volunteered 'but and if' was commended for his generosity.
Some one tried him with 'y-pleased'; 'no, no,' said he; 'that is too much of a good thing.'
'I expect him momently,' some one announced. 'A good phrase,' he said; 'so is "minutely"; we have excellent authority for "daily."'
'Look you!' said a man, meaning 'look.' 'Yes, what am I to look you at?'
He took up a man who said, 'Yes, I can grapple with that,' meaning that he understood, with 'Oh, you are going to throw me, are you? how?'
'How shrill those fives are!' said some one. 'Oh, come now,' said Socrates; 'seditions and strives, but not drums and fives.'