RETURNED EMPTY.
Old Mayfly (who had dropped his Flask further down stream, and has just had it returned to him by Honest Rustic). "Dear me! Thank you! Thank you!" (Gives him a Shilling.) "Don't know what I should ha' done without it!" (Begins to unscrew top.) "May I offer you a——"
Honest Rustic. "Well, thank y', Sir, but me and my Mate, not seein' a Howner about, we've ta'en what there were inside."