They say he will eat any thing he can get between meals, but he prefers oakum.

He does not like oakum for dinner, but he likes it for a lunch, at odd hours, or any thing that way.

It makes him very disagreeable, because it makes his breath bad, and keeps his teeth all stuck up with tar.

Baker's boy may have suggested the breakfast, but I hope he did not.

It went off well, anyhow.