169 36 159 black teeth at his plug of tobacco,
vouchsafing no reply to Billy's
impetuous question, tho' now
repeated, for it was his wont to
relapse into grim silence when
interrogated in skeptical sort

as to any of his sententious oracles,
not always very clear ones, rather
partaking of that tenebrific ^ obscurity which
invests most Delphic deliverances
from any quarter.

In l Long experience ——//—— had very likely
brought this old man to the conclusion that never
to give advice that ^ bitter prudence which never interferes
in aught and never gives advice.
169 36 159 black teeth at his plug of tobacco,
vouchsafing no reply to Billy's
impetuous question, tho' now
repeated, for it was his wont to
relapse into grim silence when
interrogated in skeptical sort

as to any of his sententious oracles,
not always very clear ones, rather
partaking of that tenebrific ^ obscurity which
invests most Delphic deliverances
from any quarter.

In l Long experience ——//—— had very likely
brought this old man to the conclusion that never
to give advice that ^ bitter prudence which never interferes
in aught and never gives advice.

Transcribed by: John Bryant