Some people calls it a Inventionary, and some an Emmarandum, and some a Catalogue.

It don't interfere with you, Mr.Swipes; only the next time as Miss Dolly asks, the same as she was doing the other day--" "Oh, she was, was she?
The little -- ---!" Mr.Swipes used a word concerning that young lady which would have insured his immediate discharge, together with one from the Admiral's best toe.

"And pray, what was her observations, ma'am ?" "It was Charles told me, for he was waiting at dinner.

Seems that the turnip was not to her liking, though I picked out the very best of what few you sent in, so she looks up from her plate, and she says: 'Well, I cannot understand it! To me it is the greatest mistress in the world,' she says, 'that we never can get a bit of vegetable fit for eating.
We've got,' she says, 'a kitchen-garden close upon two acres, and a man who calls himself head gardener, by the name of Swipes'-- my pardoning to you, Mr.Swipes, for the young lady's way of saying it--'and his two sons, and his nephew, and I dare say soon his grandsons.

Well, and what comes of it ?' says she.