Chapter 22

May we never engage in a bad cause, and never fly from a good one.

May domestic slavery be abolished throughout the world.

May the fruits of England's soil never be denied to her children.

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SPORTING.

May the lovers of the chase never want the comforts of life.

May every fox-hunter be well mounted.

May we always enjoy the pleasures of shootings and succeed with foul and fair.

The staunch hound that never spends tongue but where he ought.

The gallant huntsman that plunges into the deep in pursuit of his game.

The clear-sighted sportsman that sees his game with one eye.

The steady sportsman that always brings down his game.

The beagle that runs by nose and not by sight.

The jolly sportsman that never beats about the bush.

The huntsman's pleasures--the field in the morning and the bottle at night.

The joys of angling.

The jolly sportsman who enters the covert without being bit by the fox.

May the pleasures of sportsmen never know an end.

May the jolly fox-hunter never want freedom of soul nor liberality of heart.

May we always gain fresh vigour from the joys of the chase.

May the sportsman's day be spent in pleasure.

May strength the sportsman's nerves in vigour brace; May cruelty ne'er stain with foul disgrace The well-earned pleasures of the chase.

May the love of the chase never interrupt our attention of the welfare of the country.

May every sport prove as innocent as that of the field.

May the bows of all British bowmen be strong, their strings sound, and may their arrows fly straight to the mark.

May we always run the game breast high.

May those who love the crack of the whip never want a brush to pursue.

May the heart of a sportsman never know affliction but by name.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

The three A's: Abundance, abstinence, and annihilation. Abundance to the poor. Abstinence to the intemperate. Annihilation to the wicked.

The three B's: Bachelors, banns, and buns. Bachelors, for the maidens. Banns for the bachelors. Buns after the consummation of the banns.

The three C's: Cheerfulness, content, and competency. Cheerfulness in our cups. Content in our minds. Competency in our pockets.

The three F's: Firmness, freedom, and fortitude. Firmness in the senate. Freedom on the land. Fortitude on the waves.

The three F's: Friendship, feeling, and fidelity. Friendship without interest. Feeling to our enemies. Fidelity to our friends.

The three F's: Fat, fair, and forty.

The three generals in peace: General peace. General plenty. General satisfaction.

The three generals in power: General employment. General industry. General comfort.

The three H's: Health, honour, and happiness. Health to all the world. Honour to those who seek for it. Happiness in our homes.

The three L's: Love, life, and liberty. Love pure. Life long. Liberty boundless.

The three M's: Mirth, music, and moderation. Mirth at every board. Music in all instruments. Moderation in our desires.

The three golden balls of civilization: Industry, commerce, and wealth.

The three companions of beauty: Modesty, love, and constancy.

The three blessings of this life: Health, wealth, and a good conscience.

The four comforts of this life: Love, liberty, health, and a contented mind.

The three spirits that have no souls: Brandy, rum, and gin.

The three L's; Love, loyalty, and length of days.

The three M's; Modesty, moderation, and mutuality. Modesty in our discourse. Moderation in our wishes. Mutuality in our affection.

THE MUSICIAN'S TOAST.--May a crotchet in the head never bar the utterance of good notes.

May the lovers of harmony never be in want of a note, and its enemies die in a common chord.

THE SURGEON'S TOAST.--The man that bleeds for his country.

THE WAITER'S TOAST.--The clever waiter who puts the cork in first and the liquor afterwards.

THE GLAZIER'S TOAST.--The praiseworthy glazier who takes _panes_ to see his way through life.

THE GREENGROCER'S TOAST.--May we spring up like vegetables, have turnip noses, radish cheeks, and carroty hair; and may our hearts never be hard like those of cabbages, nor may we be rotten at the core.

THE PAINTER'S TOAST.--When we work in the wet may we never want for driers.

THE TALLOW CHANDLER'S TOAST.--May we make light of our misfortunes, melt the fair when we press them, and make our foes wax warm in our favour.

THE HATTER'S TOAST.--When the rogue _naps_ it, may the lesson be _felt_.

THE TAILOR'S TOAST.--May we always _sheer_ out of a lawsuit, and by so doing _cut_ bad company.

THE BAKER'S TOAST.--May we never be done so much as to make us crusty.

THE LAWYER'S TOAST.--May the depth of our potations never cause us to let judgment go by default.

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LATIN.

_Ad finem esto fidelis_. Be faithful to the end.

_Amor patriae_. The love of our country.

_Dilige amicos_. Love your friends.

_Dum vivimus vivamus_. Let us live while we live.

_Esto perpetua_. Be thou perpetual.

_Palmam qid meruit ferate_. Let him who has won bear the palm.

_Pro aris et focis_. For our altars and fireside.

_Vox populi vox Dei_. The voice of the people is the voice of God.

THE END.