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Balance 14 Oct. 317: The devil has been nick-named the old boy, perhaps by some as sounding more modish, familiar, or polite, and not bearing so hard upon him as his proper name .... His impudence in lying proves him to be an old boy. Balance 15 Nov. 363/1: It would (to use a Yankee phrase) puzzle a dozen Philadelphia lawyers, to unriddle the conduct of the democrats. Balance 1 Mar. 65: Whipping one another through the lungs with swords, or mutually injecting leaden pills. Balance 22 July 232: The land we till is all our own; / Whate’er the price we paid it; / Therefore we’ll fight till all is blue, / Should any dare invade it. Balance 13 May 146/3: I have heard of a jarum, of phlegm-cutter and fog driver [DA]. Balance 18 Mar. 82: Col. Smith will never again way lay Chatham with a large club, to dust his jacket. Balance 10 Mar. 75: I think they call him German, though he is not a Dutchman. Balance 17 Feb. 51: Now he will have to go to grass, as the saying is. Balance 6 Sept. 144: [signature of a poem] ‘A cracker painter’.