You’ve worked at the craft—you must know that often

A casting turns out, to speak plainly, mere dross;

The buttons, for instance, have sometimes no loop to them.

What did you do then?

Peer.

Flung the rubbish away.

The Button-moulder.

Ah, yes; Jon Gynt was well known for a waster,

So long as he’d aught left in wallet or purse.

But Master, you see, he is thrifty, he is;