“Mind what you are saying, Bat Fynn!”
“Mind what you are saying, Uncle Prudent!”
“I maintain that the screw ought to be behind!”
“And so do we! And so do we!” replied half a hundred voices confounded in one.
“No! It ought to be in front!” shouted Phil Evans.
“In front!” roared fifty other voices, with a vigor in no whit less remarkable.
“We shall never agree!”
“Never! Never!”
“Then what is the use of a dispute?”
“It is not a dispute! It is a discussion!”