There was a general laugh.
"Yes, and little wiser than dogs, wrangling for a bone," said the landlady.
"Are we to let t' other side run off wi' th' bone, then, while we sit on our stunts an' yowl for it ?" asked Brewitt.
"No indeed.

There can be wisdom in everything .-- It's what you DO with the money, when you've got it," said the landlady, "that's where the importance lies." "It's Missis as gets it," said Kirk.

"It doesn't stop wi' us." "Ay, it's the wife as gets it, ninety per cent," they all concurred.
"And who SHOULD have the money, indeed, if not your wives?
They have everything to do with the money.

What idea have you, but to waste it!" "Women waste nothing--they couldn't if they tried," said Aaron Sisson.
There was a lull for some minutes.

The men were all stimulated by drink.
The landlady kept them going.