“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.