Now let any man of the present day try to whiffle.

Would not any one who wished to whiffle have to go to a master of the art.

Assuredly! but where would he find one at the present day?
The last of the whifflers hanged himself about a fortnight ago on a bell-rope in a church steeple of "the old town," from pure grief that there was no further demand for the exhibition of his art, there being no demand for whiffling since the discontinuation of Guildhall banquets.

Whiffling is lost.

The old chap left his sword behind him; let any one take up the old chap's sword and try to whiffle.
Now much the same hand as he would make who should take up the whiffler's sword and try to whiffle, would he who should try to use his fists who had never had the advantage of a master.