He asked me what it meant, and I told him." "Then what did he say ?" "He asked me if I got pay for the prescription.

Oh, but he was a thrifty man!" Flummers clasped his hands, threw himself back and laughed with a jolting "he, he, he." "Well, I've got to go.

Did anybody ring?
Say, John"-- to Richmond--"why don't you buy something ?" "What?
Oh, you gulp, you succession of swallows, you human sink-hole! Flummers, I have bought you whisky enough to overflow the Mississippi." "Oh, ho, ho, but not to-day, John.

Past whisky is a scandal; in present whisky there lies a virtue.

Never tell a man what you have done, John, lest he may think you boastful, but show him what you will do now, so that he may have the proof of your ability.