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: : "I see," said the blind man. : "You've been stung!" she said waspishly. : "I know!" I cried hurtfully. : "You're out of tune," he said sharply. : "I didn't meant it," she said accidentally. : "Even so, it won't do," he said flatly. : "I'll be all right," she replied naturally. "I see" said the blind man to his deaf daughter as he picked up his hammer and saw. "The prisoners are going over the prison wall," he said condescendingly. http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/26/messages/445.html Sam Weller, Mr. Pickwick's good-natured servant in Charles Dickens' _The Pickwick Papers_, and his father were fond of following well-known sayings or phrases with humorous or punning conclusions. For example, in one incident in the book, Sam Weller quips, "What the devil do you want with me, as the man said, w[h]en he see the ghost?" Neither Charles Dickens nor Sam Weller invented that type of word play, but Weller's tendency to use such witticisms had provoked people to start calling them "Wellerisms" by 1839, soon after the publication of the novel. Some examples of common Wellerisms are "'Every one to his own taste,' said the old woman as she kissed the cow," and "'I see,' said the blind man." http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/22/messages/780.html "Ok, I see" sez the blindman. http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/11/messages/733.html