patronage and clientship always descended from the fathers to the sons

When members of the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia's City Tavern, they […] ordered, one must assume, a broad variety of drinks, such as the mimbo (shavings from a sugarloaf, rum and water), the sling (two parts water to one part rum), the bombo (which uses molasses instead of sugar, rum and water), the punch, or the calibogus (spruce beer and rum), a flip, a blackstrap (a mix with molasses), or a stonewall (a mix with cider).

I have a family with 2 little girls coming to stay this weekend. The goats and giraffe sheep will end up horribly over fed.

From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.