"Ay, ay."
"No; but how was it?"
"Arrah, the dirty spalpeen he was, if he was afther a trying for to do that-the divil-"
"Will Mr. McFusee wait? By the way, Jack, he, Prim, got him by the button, and began to pour into his ears a long tirade against a man's enjoying himself, and, by the aid of thee, thy, and thou, half convinced the old fellow that he must give up all, and live on ice-water and ship-bread."
"Did?"
"Ay, ay, you know Captain Marlin. He always looks at both sides, then balances both, as it were, on the point of a needle, and decides, as Squire Saltfish used to say, 'cording to law and evidence."
"By the powers, he's a man, ivery inch, from the crown of his hat to the soles of his shoes, he is."
"Mr. McFusee, will you keep still?" said Mr. Boyden, the narrator.
Mr. McFusee signified that he would.
"Well, he balanced this question, and the evidence against flew up as 't were a feather; but down went the evidence for, and he concluded to deal every man his grog in due season."
"That's the captain, all over," remarked Jack.