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Like an old Roman, the man of the sheer hulk with purple eyemounds found his legs to do the manful thing, show that there was no bad blood, stand equal to all forms. Ben Todds, if ever man in Old England, looked the picture you might label 'Bellyful, it was remarked. Kit Ines had an appearance of springy readiness to lead off again.
This sturdy British and High Church prejudice did not prevent the worthy doctor from having many warm friendships with Scotchmen, and helping many distressed Scotchmen in London. Most of the amanuenses employed for his Dictionary were Scotch. "Scotch learning," he said, for example, "is like bread in a besieged town. Every man gets a mouthful, but no man a bellyful."
First of all you come to a pool, and, then, about fifty yards further, to another pool, and into that I went plump, coming upon it sudden, in the darkness. I swallowed a bellyful of it, too, and the water if you'll believe me was quite fresh.
This puzzled me at the time, but we learned later that the man he turned out to be the stoker Billie Blue had dirked in the first fight had been killed by an unexpected ally who joined us later. "Counting Mack, they've lost five to our one," Sam summed up. "Hope they've got a bellyful by this time," I said bitterly. "They've won the wheel for the present. But that's unimportant.
"They've had their bellyful, I guess," surmised Putnam. "Then they 're better off than I am," groaned Brereton. "I could eat an ox." When the fact became obvious that the British had no intention of renewing their intended attack, a general move was made toward quarters, and as they rode Brereton pushed up beside Washington and talked with him for a moment.
"'O, but I'm in airnest, says the captain; 'and do you tell me, Paddy, says he, 'that you spake Frinch? "'Parly voo frongsay, says I. "'By gor, that bangs Banagher, and all the world knows Banagher bangs the divil, I never met the likes o' you, Paddy, says he, 'pull away, boys, and put Paddy ashore, and maybe we won't get a good bellyful before long.
I could not taste a bit on't, so full I had filled my puddings before, and a bellyful is a bellyful you know. Yet I must tell you what I saw that seemed to me odd enough o' conscience; 'twas some pasties in paste; and what should those pasties in paste be, d'ye think, but pasties in pots?
He was nearly six feet high, gallantly formed to keep the rounds at Smithfield, or maintain the ring at a wrestling-match; and although he might have been overmatched, perhaps, among the regular professors of the Fancy, yet as a chance customer, he was able to give a bellyful to any amateur of the pugilistic art.
"By reason of a sword-stroke at Stainishawbank Fair," I answered boldly. "Faith, then, I see no cause why, as your will is so good, you should not soon have your bellyful of sword-strokes. I felt my face reddening at these ill words, so I stooped, as if to clear my spur of mire.
Sancho overheard him and said, "It is eight or ten days, brother growler, since I entered upon the government of the island they gave me, and all that time I never had a bellyful of victuals, no not for an hour; doctors persecuted me and enemies crushed my bones; nor had I any opportunity of taking bribes or levying taxes; and if that be the case, as it is, I don't deserve, I think, to come out in this fashion; but 'man proposes and God disposes; and God knows what is best, and what suits each one best; and 'as the occasion, so the behaviour; and 'let nobody say "I won't drink of this water;" and 'where one thinks there are flitches, there are no pegs; God knows my meaning and that's enough; I say no more, though I could."
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