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There 's many a white woman 'u'd be glad ter git as fine a lookin' man as ye are." "Now you 're flattrin' me, Mis' Flannigan," said Wellington. But he felt a sudden and substantial increase in courage when she had spoken, and it was with astonishing ease that he found himself saying:
At seven o'clock, when Bella had dropped asleep and everybody else was dressed for dinner, Aunt Selina discovered that the house was cold, and ordered Dal to the furnace. It was Dal's day at the furnace; Flannigan had been relieved of that part of the work after twice setting fire to a chimney.
"Well, iliction day come around; an' all th' imminent frinds iv good gover'mint had special wires sthrung into th' club, an' waited f'r th' returns. Th' first precin't showed 28 votes f'r Willie Boye to 14 f'r Flannigan. 'That's my precin't, says Willie. 'I wondher who voted thim fourteen? 'Coachmen, says Clarence Doolittle.
I said to Betty that my shoe buckle was loose, and actually got the watch in my hand, only to let it slip at the critical moment. Then they all got up and went sadly back to the library, and Flannigan and I faced each other. Flannigan was not a handsome man at any time, though up to then he had at least looked amiable.
After that, Aunt Selina or no Aunt Selina, we decided to have boiled eggs, and Mr. Harbison knew how to cook them. He put them in the tea kettle and then went to look at the furnace. And Officer Timothy Flannigan ground the coffee and gave his opinion of the board of health in no stinted terms.
But, besides the cigar, the dog had his beautiful eye-glass, and through it, while he was spaking to Father Flannigan, he ogled all the ladies, one after another, and when his eye would light upon any that pleased him, he would kiss his paw to her and wag his tail with the greatest politeness.
Flannigan was lifting rugs to shake them on the roof Bella's order. "Wash the table linen!" he was grumbling. "I'll do what I can that's necessary. Grub has to be cooked, and dishes has to be washed I'll admit that. If you're particular, make up your bed every day; I don't object. But don't tell me we have to use thirty-three table napkins a day. What did folks do before napkins was invented?
Flannigan, were elevated into an open "bus," and drawn by their enthusiastic admirers through the principal streets of Bayton. They had hoisted a broom in the front of their vehicle as an emblem of their victory. "What does that mane, Mike?" queried one of the army of ragged, blear-eyed tatterdemalions of his mate.
Dal said that if HE had anything like that in his system he certainly would be glad to get rid of it. At a quarter to six Jim appeared, still sullen from the events of the afternoon and wearing a dressing gown and a pair of slippers, Flannigan following him with a sponge, a bucket of water and an armful of bath towels.
"Cain was damned," I cried, "and he slew but one; would you have the blood of two hundred upon your souis?" "He's mad!" said Flannigan. "Time's up. Let it off, Muller." I sprang down upon the deck. "You shan't do it!" I said. "By what right do you prevent us?" "By every right, human and divine." "It's no business of yours. Clear out of this." "Never!" said I. "Confound the fellow!
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