He is the minister of a little parish called Aghadoe, in the North, where they give him two hundred and ten pounds per annum.

There are eight in family, and he actually does not see his way to allow me one hundred and fifty out of it.

That's the way they neglect arithmetic in our modern schools!' 'Has he reduced your allowance ?' 'He has done more, he has extinguished it.' 'Have you provoked him to this ?' 'I have provoked him to it.' 'But is it not possible to accommodate matters?
It should not be very difficult, surely, to show him that once you are launched in life--' 'And when will that be, Dick ?' broke in the other.

'I have been on the stocks these four years, and that launching process you talk of looks just as remote as ever.

No, no; let us be fair; he has all the right on his side, all the wrong is on mine.