"Yes, the spirit of that corps, as you can tell from the whiffs that come this way, is the whisky-bottle.

Let the whisky-shops answer him.

Says he, "Young man, the tribe of Phinns Knows their own whisky-skins!" He went for his 'leven-inch bowie-knife: "I tries to foller a Christian life;

And as I groped, the whole time I was thinking About the tragic poem I'd been writing,... An old man's life of beer and whisky drinking, His years of kidnapping and wicked fighting; And how at last, into a fever sinking, Remorsefully he died, his bedclothes biting.

Then, at the thought of apologizing to a daughter of that turkey-necked old whisky-guzzler he had to laugh.

A Michigan citizen recently received a letter from a Kentucky whisky house, requesting him to send them the names of a dozen or more persons who would like to get some fine whisky shipped to them at a very low price.

There were no intruders, unless the noisy whisky-jacks, the big-eyed moose-birds, the chattering bush sparrows, and the wood-mice and ermine could be called such.

If it wasn't for this owld whisky-jug I wouldn't be l'aving her," said Teddy, indignantly.

"'Twenty odd years ago,' said the old pilot, as he lighted his pipe and seated himself on the head of a whisky-keg, 'there warn't a great many people along the Ohio, except Ingins and bears, and we didn't like to cultivate a very close acquaintance with either of them, for the Ingins were cheatin', deceivin', and scalpin' critters, and the bears had an onpleasant way with 'em, that people of delicate narves didn't like.

There'd be a committee of investigation appointed on the spot, an' I shouldn't pass muster excipt for a whisky-barrel, och hone!

We ordered in supper and whisky-toddy as hot as hell!

"On the table there was a whisky decanter, taken from the tantalus-stand on the sideboard, and one glass.

The inhabitant of the cabin ran to a little cupboard, made of a packing-box, and brought out a whisky-flask, and essayed to put it to her lips, but as he saw her lying there, white and beautiful in her helplessness, he started back and said, with a rude reverence, "Stranger, gin her some of this 'ereI never could tech sech a creetur!"

Be 't whisky-gill or penny-wheep, Or onie stronger potion, It never fails, on drinkin deep, To kittle up our notion, By night or day.