He'll hev to spare at both ends to make his bit o' brass do for all.

He never hed any more than he needed." This was an average criticism and not perhaps an unfair one.

Men, however, did not as a rule talk much on the subject; they just quietly disappeared.

Everyone knew it to be a most unexpected and unmerited calamity.

They had done nothing to deserve it, they could do nothing to prevent it.