Thus accomplished he comes down to his friends, and his first salutation is grace and peace out of the pulpit.

* Here is a recollection of Wordsworth: SALUTATION, AMBLESIDE, 1841, Sept. 19.

My salutations are, Farewell, and be hang'd!

I had to give the skirt of his coat a pull, in order to recall him to our agreement, else I do think the first salutation received by the attorney, would have been a broadside in anything but words.

Our Salutation at Entrance is a Yawn and a Stretch, and then without more Ceremony we take our Place at the Lolling Table; where our Discourse is, what I fear you would not read out, therefore shall not insert.

On meeting at dinner, his salutation to his Colonel was, "Anither het day, Cornal," as if "het days" were in Barbadoes few and far between, as they were in his dear old stormy cloudy Scotland.