“Yes, they did.”
“Excuse me—they didn’t have anything of the kind.”
“Excuse me, young sir,—bein’ a man old enough, to be your feyther, an’ a seafarin’ man, too, an’, what’s more, a man that reads his Bible,—but they did.”
“I should like to know how you make that out.”
“Did you ever read Acts?”
“Of course.”
“Did you ever happen to hear tell of the vygo of the ‘postle Paul, young sir?”
“Yes; but what’s that got to do with it? You don’t mean to say that he had a compass.”
“That’s the very pint that I’m a drivin’ at.”
“What! that the apostle Paul had a compass?”