I _know_ it's so.

And, moreover, when you come right down to the bedrock, knight-errantry is _worse_ than pork; for whatever happens, the pork's left, and so somebody's benefited anyway; but when the market breaks, in a knight-errantry whirl, and every knight in the pool passes in his checks, what have you got for assets?
Just a rubbish-pile of battered corpses and a barrel or two of busted hardware.

Can you call _those_ assets?
Give me pork, every time.

Am I right ?" "Ah, peradventure my head being distraught by the manifold matters whereunto the confusions of these but late adventured haps and fortunings whereby not I alone nor you alone, but every each of us, meseemeth--" "No, it's not your head, Sandy.

Your head's all right, as far as it goes, but you don't know business; that's where the trouble is.