Now let us roll for a moment into business. Your twenty-nine intentions of the 24th ulto and the seventeen of the ist instant, I have all rolled out to good quarters. The old corn-crackers, I think, do well to roll in on your rollingmill, to obtain pious rolls - Father Di Maria paid dear enough for his two new sets of corn-crackers [false teeth]. He wants silver rollers to keep them sharp and to keep hil old mare in corn and in good humor, lest she, too, like her angry little one, cracks off another Father's thumb, and, like Truyens would make him feel the loss of the thing. Roll out of course a part of your kind intentions to the old corn-crackers, it will keep them in a good rolling, corncracking mood.
We rolled everything in good order in our Bishop's room, for we expect the second High Priest of the Upper Corncrackers will roll in on us soon after Easter. The second cook is already engaged in baking hot rolls for the occasion - his friends know what he is rolling after and will be, no doubt, prepared to furnish him a goodly roll of shin-plasters, to enable his Lordship to erect the corn-cracking cathedral of Covington.
Roll on with your accounts with your usual prudence; they will roll into a happy conclusion at last, and St. Xavier, I trust, will roll and roll smoothly forward for many a happy year to come. The silver rolls alone ought not al together to absorb our thoughts. Robinson-like, you must keep them rolling in and out, for to be rolled about is their nature.- Your church is your chief rolling mill and a great deal of good rolls out of it. Upward of 30,000 sinful rolls yearly, of which many are generals, are there unrolled, and the dark rolling consciences, being freed and made clean, roll toward home in peace and joy. And again, how many are there in the Queen City, who are yearly rolled into a happy eternity by Father Rolloff & Co., whose names find a place on the celestial roll. Roll on patiently and cautiously with your temporal rolls, so that the spiritual rolling-mill may be kept in a constant rolling operation.