"Won't you take another nip of this brandy, Zeke?" added Captain Chinks, pushing the bottle towards him.
"Don't care if I do. That's good brandy."
"But it isn't any better than a lot which was aboard that boat when your boy picked her up."
"Sho! You don't say she had brandy in her?"
"No, I don't say so. I say again that I don't know anything at all about the matter. I only had my suspicions, you know."
"I understand," replied Ezekiel, as he drank off his dram.
"I don't know, but in my judgment that boat was loaded with brandy, or something that don't pay tribute to Uncle Sam."
"You don't say so!"
"No, I don't say so," replied Captain Chinks, sharply, for he was very particular not to be regarded as affirming what he only suspected. "I only guess so."
"Well, you don't say that you guess so! That's what I meant to say," explained the toper.