They're the old fish; and they're mean an' humpy, an' their stummicks has to be humoured; so they come first, which they don't deserve.

Ain't that so, doctor ?" The cook nodded.
"Can't he talk ?" said Harvey, in a whisper.
"'Nough to git along.

Not much o' anything we know.

His natural tongue's kinder curious.

Comes from the in'ards of Cape Breton, he does, where the farmers speak home-made Scotch.