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When it comes right down to a case of being a Bad Boy the grip has every other disease slapped to a sit-down. I had the grip some weeks ago and ever since my system has felt like eight cents worth of cheese. The medicine sharps tell us that the grip is caused by a little germ which emigrated to this country originally from Russia. If that's the case I'm glad the Japs put the boots to the Czar.
"Ah, very good Abraham," rejoined the native; "you give me copper, me call you gentleman." "Them you piccaninnies?" asked one of the women, pointing to Hubert and Frank. "No," said Mr Oliphant; "there there are some coppers for you; you must do me some work for them when you come to my sit-down." "Gammon," cried the black addressed; "me plenty lazy."
As we are among the grandest of the grandees, I must enliven my sober account with an extract from my companion's diary: "There were several great beauties there, Lady Claude Hamilton, a queenly blonde, being one. Royalty had one room for supper, with its attendant lords and ladies. Lord Rothschild took me down to a long table for a sit-down supper, there were some thirty of us.
We’ve had the carpet taken up in the back drawing-room, and the piano and the card-tables are in the front. Jemima thought we’d better have a regular sit-down supper in the front parlour, because of the speechifying, and all that.
The girl is bringing up the tea, and I'm positively dying for a cup and a sit-down. Of course this" turning gaily round on me, standing there like a great gawk, volubly cursing my shirt-sleeves under my breath "is the incomparable Oliver! Charmed to meet you, sir!" I bowed, and Margaret said staidly, "Yes, my lady. This is Master Oliver Wheatman of the Hanyards.
Burtenshaw shut the door arter 'im, and then she went in and 'ad a quiet sit-down all by 'erself to think it over. The only thing that comforted 'et was that Bill would be in licker, and also that 'e would believe anything in the ghost line.
We are all feet, feet, FEET. First I try standing on one foot to let the other think I might really, after all, be sitting down. Then I stand on it and give the other a delusion. Then try standing on the sides, the toes, the heels. FEET! “Ach! Mein Gott!” moans Tessie. “To-morrow I go look for a job in a biscuit factory.” “Leave me know if you get a sit-down one.”
Five years later, during which time affairs, business and social, had been slipping along as well as either Bob or I could have asked, I was preparing for another sit-down to show my chum that the time had now come for him to help me in earnest, when a queer thing happened one of those unaccountable incidents that God sometimes sees fit to drop across the life-paths of His children, paths heretofore as straight and far-ahead-visible as highways along which one has never to look twice to see where he is travelling; one of those events that, looked at retrospectively, are beyond all human understanding.
Sometimes you go, after Dalton has taught you "the ropes," to have a cosy sit-down over oysters and champagne, to which the Senior lends himself with the pleasantest condescension in the world. You are not altogether used to hard drinking; but this you conceal as most spirited young fellows do by drinking a great deal.
'If you do want a sit-down lunch, there's nothing like running aground for it. And, anyhow, we're as handy for work here as anywhere else. You'll see. Like most landsmen I had a wholesome prejudice against running aground', so that my mentor's turn for breezy paradox was at first rather exasperating.
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