This was a decided point.
"Well, you see," said he, "it's this way.

If young Fisher minor hadn't been born, he wouldn't have had a governor and a mater, and if he hadn't had a governor and a mater, no more would Fisher major.

And if Fisher major hadn't had a governor and a mater he'd never have been elected treasurer, and if he'd not been elected treasurer he wouldn't have lost the money.

So you see the young un's at the bottom of it again." "I know a shorter way than that," said D'Arcy.

"If young Fisher minor hadn't fetched Rollitt up to vote that day, Fisher major wouldn't have been elected, and then he couldn't have lost the money." "Isn't that what I said ?" said Percy, indignant to be thus summarily paraphrased.
"Are you going to lick me for being born ?" inquired Fisher minor.
"Good mind to.