“He be a cruncher, be he?”
“I believe you; he turned a man inside out the other day; a money-lender he was.”
“Did ur now?”
“Look at that,” said Joe.
“And we’re going to have Mr. Dynamite for junior; my eye, don’t he make a row!”
“Two an em!” exclaimed Bumpkin.
“Must have two for the plaintiff,” said Horatio; “that’s the law. Why, a Queen’s Counsel ain’t allowed to open a case without a junior starts him—it’s jist like the engine-driver and the guard. You have the junior to shove the leader.”
“Look at that,” said Joe; expectorating into the fire.
Mr. Bumpkin looked again at Nancy, and gave another wink that you might have heard.
“And the tother side?” he asked.