That was all that was necessary to restore harmony at the table, but Dab's plan for "punishing the Hart boys" was a complete failure.
As Ford told him afterwards: "Feel it?
Not they.

You might as well try to hurt a clam with a pin." "And I hurt your sister's feelings instead of theirs," said Dab.

"Well, I'll never try any thing like it again.

Anyhow, Joe and Fuz ain't comfortable they ate too many roasted clams and a good deal too much lobster." There was a certain degree of consolation to be had from such a fact as that..