How to deal with Windbags.
"The address was punctured throughout with cheers."
—West Indian Paper.
"There would be a grand dinner and music, and splendidly-dressed ladies to look at, and things to eat that strangely twisted the girls' paws when they tried to tell about them,"
Weekly Paper.
Mem.—Never try to talk the deaf-and-dumb language after dinner.
Profiteer (to his wife). "Pretty mixed lot at this hotel. 'Ere come some more o' them pre-war blighters."