Upon the letter a in calf. In place of rightly firing calf with the Italian sound of a, as in bah, he wrongly fired calf with a broad. Therefore he fired a broadside, with sound the same as in ball. I claim the foul is sound.
Scythe.
Let me examine your weapon [examining Fopdoodle’s dictionary]. I plainly see a calf with two little dots like budding horns above the letter a, denoting the Italian sound; and as you wrongfully fired broad a, and as broad a in your weapon is denoted by two little dots below the a, I rule you struck below the belt, and hence a foul.
Bluegrass.
First foul for Fopdoodle.
Whetstone [aside].
See him tremble.
Fopdoodle [aside].
I struck him badly.
Scythe.