_Come, none of your raillery_; as the stage-coach indignantly said to the
steam-engine.
_That "strain" again_; as the Poor-law Commissioner generously said to the
water-gruel sieve.
_I paid very dear for my whistle_; as the steam-engine emphatically said
to the railroad.
_Peel for ever!_ as the church bells joyously said to Conservative hearts.
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There is at present a man in New York whose temper is so exceedingly hot
that he invariably reduces all his shirts to tinder.
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