If it would have helped their case any, they would have apprenticed him to thirty butchers, to fifty butchers, to a wilderness of butchers--all by their patented method "presumption." If it will help their case they will do it yet; and if it will further help it, they will "presume" that all those butchers were his father.

And the week after, they will _say_ it.

Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandescent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude; which is father to the expression which the grammarians call Verb.

It is like a whole ancestry, with only one posterity.
To resume.

Next, the young Bacon took up the study of law, and mastered that abstruse science.