Dick's book of toasts, speeches and responses

containing toasts, sentiments, and specimen speeches, with appropriate replies, for public and private social occasions, such as public dinners, special dinners and gatherings, convivial assemblages, literature, and the professions, agriculture, manufactures and commerce, the ladies, sporting coteries, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and other festivals, friendly meetings, the army and navy, patriots and politicians, trades unions and dinners, weddings and their anniversaries, married men's and bachelors' banquets, Masonic celebrations, miscellaneous occasions : with a dissertation on the art of making after-dinner speeches, and rules for presiding at table : also a choice collection of anecdotes

by William B. Dick

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