Yes, How Do They? ——
Private Pat: “Mike, what th’ hell kind of fish be them ye’re eatin’?”
Corporal Mike: “Hush, Pat; don’t be disthplayin’ yer ignorance—the ould Frinch la-ady might hear yeze! Thim’s sairdeens!”
Pat: “Sairdeens, is ut? They’re a small fish, ain’t they? An’ where, pray tell, do they grow?”
Mike: “Pat, I’m asthounded at yer ignorance of gogerfy! Thim little fish grow in the Atla-antic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Injun Ocean, the Airctic Ocean, an’—oh, in all them oceans. An’ the big fish, such as the whale, the halleybut, the shairk, an’ all o’ thim, they live off’n eatin’ th’ sairdeens!”
Pat: “They do, do they Mike? Thin phwaht I’d like to know is how th’ hell do they iver open the box?”