He's a dumb dog.

Go back to your goose, Snippy; you never were made for this work.

Go to Courcy Castle and reform that." Mr Moffat, grieved in his soul, was becoming inextricably bewildered by such facetiae as these, when an egg,--and it may be feared not a fresh egg,--flung with unerring precision, struck him on the open part of his well-plaited shirt, and reduced him to speechless despair.
An egg is a means of delightful support when properly administered; but it is not calculated to add much spirit to a man's eloquence, or to ensure his powers of endurance, when supplied in the manner above described.

Men there are, doubtless, whose tongues would not be stopped even by such an argument as this; but Mr Moffat was not one of them.

As the insidious fluid trickled down beneath his waistcoat, he felt that all further powers of coaxing the electors out of their votes, by words flowing from his tongue sweeter than honey, was for that occasion denied to him.