"Mr. Ginnell: Everybody in the House is excited but myself. Even you, Mr. Speaker, are excited."—Parliamentary Debates.
"'It's my opinion, sir,' said Mr. Stiggins ... that this meeting is drunk, sir. Brother Tadger, sir ... you are drunk, sir.'"—Pickwick Papers.
AN OLD SONG RESUNG.
"O Ever since the world began
There never was and never can
Be such a very useful man
As the railway porter."
So ran the rhyme that in my youth