So there are 18,000 pounds to my share of the expenses, and 28,000 to yours.
After Nic.

had bamboozled John awhile about the 18,000 and the 28,000, John called for counters; but what with sleight of hand, and taking from his own score and adding to John's, Nic.

brought the balance always on his own side.
JOHN BULL .-- Nay, good friend Nic., though I am not quite so nimble in the fingers, I understand ciphering as well as you.

I will produce you my accounts one by one, fairly writ out of my own books; and here I begin with the first.

You must excuse me if I don't pronounce the law terms right.
[John reads.] For the expenses ordinary of the suits, fees to judges, puisne judges, lawyers innumerable of all sorts:-- Of extraordinaries, as follows per account..
To Esquire South's account for post terminums..
To ditto for non est factums..
To ditto for noli prosequis, discontinuance, and retraxit..
For writs of error..
Suits of conditions unperformed..
To Hocus for dedimus protestatem..
To ditto for a capias ad computandum..
To Frog's new tenants per account to Hocus, for audita querelas..
On the said account for writs of ejectment and distringas..
To Esquire South's quota for a return of a non est invent and nulla habet bona..
To -- -- for a pardon in forma pauperis..
To Jack for a melius inquirendum upon a felo-de-se..
To coach-hire..
For treats to juries and witnesses..
John having read over his articles, with the respective sums, brought in Frog debtor to him upon the balance, 3,382 pounds 12 shillings.
Then Nic.