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"I reckon I'll have a mess of hominy to-night," said he. "It's going on five days since I've had any." "A mess of hominy," cried Tom; "that does not sound very nice." "I guess if you tasted it you'd find it nice," answered the wagoner. "You British don't know anything of the vartues of our corn."
You shall bring out your own rifle, and I will just sight Killdeer in a careless way, in order that we may know a few of its secret vartues."
Chairman and Gintlemen," said the Other, "it sames to me, and I'm hopin' yez wull approve the suggistion, that an appropriet way to honour the mimory of the decaised would be to erect an emolument sootably inscribed wid his vartues." The soul of the great man looked down from Heaven and wept. A Needless Labour
I don't think I ever told you about him, and if you'll let him fill 'em up ag'in for it's one of the vartues of hot rum that the more you drinks the thirstier you gits I'll reel you the yarn right off.
"Sixth Confess your sins, at laste once dacently and soberly every year. "Seventh Resave your God at confission about great Easter-day; "Well," said his Eeverence, "now, to great point is, do you understand them?" "Wid the help of God, I hope so, your Rev'rence; and I have also the three thriptological vartues." "Theological, sirrah!" "Grey attitudes!
And then, as the gentleman smilingly yielded to the invitation, the landlady, turning to Walter, said: "Our clergyman, Sir: and though I say it afore his face, there is not a man who, if Christian vartues were considered, ought so soon to be a bishop." "Hush! my good lady," said Mr. Summers, laughing as he bowed to Walter.
"Pat," said the landlord, "here we do everything systematically. You must first give the gentlemen each a plate of soup, and when they finish that, ask them what they will have next." Pat replied, "Ah! an' I understand parfectly the vartues of shystem." Very soon in came the guests. The plates of soup were placed before them. One of Pat's two gentlemen ate his soup; the other did not care for it.
That's one o' the vartues, I believe; leastwise, so I'm told. Ah, it's caught at last. I dun know much about it from 'xperience, d'ye see? There, now, we'll git things put to rights," he added, applying the kindled spark to some dry chips and producing a flame, with which he ignited a pine-knot, and stuck it blazing in a cleft in the rock. "Just see what them reptiles ha' done to me.
And then, as the gentleman smilingly yielded to the invitation, the landlady, turning to Walter, said: "Our clergyman, Sir: and though I say it afore his face, there is not a man who, if Christian vartues were considered, ought so soon to be a bishop." "Hush! my good lady," said Mr. Summers, laughing as he bowed to Walter.
So I took th' book and tugged at it; but, Lord bless yo', it went on about capital and labour, and labour and capital, till it fair sent me off to sleep. I ne'er could rightly fix i' my mind which was which; and it spoke on 'em as if they was vartues or vices; and what I wanted for to know were the rights o' men, whether they were rich or poor so be they only were men.
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