"It takes in everything, like an eatin'-house stew.

And, as usual in them cases, the feller that ordered it didn't know what was comin' to him.
"Stingy Gabe was that feller.

His Sunday name was Gabriel Atkinson Holway, and his dad used to peddle fish from Orham to Denboro and back.
The old man was christened Gabriel, likewise.

He owed 'most everybody, and, besides, was so mean that he kept the scales and trimmin's of the fish he sold to make chowder for himself and family.

All hands called him 'Stingy Gabe,' and the boy inherited the name along with the fifteen hundred dollars that the old man left when he died.