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McGuire was not like that, and yet In another instant the cattleman was holding him by the hand and shoulder. "Son, son, how goes it?" was all he found to say. "Close to the ground, says you," shouted McGuire, crunching Raidler's fingers in a grip of steel; "and dat's where I found it healt' and strengt', and tumbled to what a cheap skate I been actin'. T'anks fer kickin' me out, old man.
On this day it was customary to extend an unusual degree of license to the servants, and hence there was no lack of generous liquors on the board, of the same descriptions as those drank by their superiors. And to do them justice, it was seldom the privilege was abused. The glasses were quickly filled, and the General proposed "de healt' ob de fair sec."
"Proffis-or Frowenfel', good-day! Teg a cha'." She laughed. It was the pure joy of existence. "You's well? You lookin' verrie well! Halways bizzie? You fine dad agriz wid you' healt', 'Sieur Frowenfel'? Yes? Ha, ha, ha!" She suddenly leaned toward him across the arm of her chair, with an earnest face. "'Sieur Frowenfel', Palmyre wand see you.
Veil, I am in dot bees'ness myself. "'Who do you travel for? said I, playing the innocent. "'I'm not on de roat, said the old man. 'I am just out on a leetle trip for my healt. I am a monufacturer. Who do you trafel for? "I told him and then tried to switch the conversation to something else. I knew the old man wouldn't let me do it. "'V'ere do you trafel? said he.
Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle is marked by great vigor, as well as by an almost pre-Raphaelite finish. The bibulous Rip is always present by the ever-recurring and favorite toast of "Here's your goot healt' and your family's, and may dey live long and prosper." The meditative and philosophic Rip is signaled by the abstract "Ja," which sometimes means yes, and sometimes means no.
McGuire was not like that, and yet In another instant the cattleman was holding him by the hand and shoulder. "Son, son, how goes it?" was all he found to say. "Close to the ground, says you," shouted McGuire, crunching Raidler's fingers in a grip of steel; "and dat's where I found it healt' and strengt', and tumbled to what a cheap skate I been actin'. T'anks fer kickin' me out, old man.
"Sure ting," cried Benoit, the jolly French-Canadian cook. "Good for my healt. He's tak off my front porsch here." And the cook patted affectionately the little round paunch that marred the symmetry of his figure. "You ought to get Cameron to swap jobs with you, Benny," said one of the axemen. "You would be a dandy in about another month."
"Was John the last one who saw my father before he was found unconscious this morning?" "Hi! yes, young marse, to be sure he were. De las' to see de ole marse in healt' las' night, an' de firs' to fine him dis way dis mornin'." "How came he to find his master in this condition?" "It was dis way.
Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper."
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