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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