Routledge's Manual of Etiquette Part 44

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 fort.i.tude.

Firmness in the senate.

Freedom on the land.

Fort.i.tude on the waves.

The three F's: Friends.h.i.+p, feeling, and fidelity.

Friends.h.i.+p 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 b.a.l.l.s 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.

LATIN.