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I'd stand up befure a cross-eyed Spanish gunner an' take his shootin' without a mask mesilf; but I'd shy hard if anny ol' heifer come up, an' thried to kiss me. "On th' flure iv th' 'Merrimac, in his light undherclothes, Loot Hobson was a sthrong, foolish man.
"Whin a lady begins to wondher if I'm not onhappy in me squalid home without th' touch iv a woman's hand ayether in th' tidy on th' chair or in th' inside pocket iv th' coat, I say: 'No, ma'am, I live in gr-reat luxury surrounded be all that money can buy an' manny things that it can't or won't. There ar-re Turkish rugs on th' flure an' chandyleers hang fr'm th' ceilins.
"It was hard to tell whether the inside or the outside of their house was worse; within, it would amost turn your stomach to look at it the flure was all dirt, for how could it be any other way, when at the end of every meal the schrahag* would be emptied down on it, and the pig, that was whining and grunting about the door, would brake into the hape of praty-skins that Sally would there throw down for it.
Him there leerin' and scoffin'! One bang at his nose was worth forty dollars to me that minute! How did you stand it, Bill?" "How did I stand it?" cried the cowboy in a quivering voice. "How did I stand it? Oh!" The old man burst into sudden brogue. "I'd loike to take that Swade," he wailed, "and hould 'im down on a shtone flure and bate 'im to a jelly wid a shtick!"
And luik upo' this bit hoosie, 'at I ca' my ain, and they a' helpit me to bigg, but as a lean-to til the hoose at hame, for I'm no awa frae it or them jist as that hoose and this hoose and a' the hooses are a' jist but bairnies' hooses, biggit by themsels aboot the big flure o' thy kitchie and i' the neuks o' the same wi' yer ain truffs and stanes and divots, sir.
"O Denny! Denny, dear," sez she, "have they kilt you?" 'O'Hara looked down the room again an' showed his teeth to the gum. Then he spat on the flure. "You're not worth ut," sez he. "Light that lamp, ye dogs," an' wid that he turned away, an' I saw him walkin' off wid Slimmy's wife; she thryin' to wipe off the powther-black on the front av his jackut wid her handkerchief.
The night had gathered thick about them. And for a few moments out of the darkness came no sound. At length Mr Cupples resumed: "I maun jist confess, cauf that I was and yet I wad hae been a greater cauf gin it hadna been sae I cud hae lickit the verra dist aff o' the flure whaur her fit had been.
Mary Ellen met us in the dining-room, her face pale with excitement. "It was a burglar in the scullery, ma'am," she burst out, never looking at us. "It's a mercy we wasn't all murthered in our beds this night the windy's broke, an' the shutter's pried loose, and a bag full av all the things off the sideboard is settin' on the flure. Sure, I heard the steps av him runnin' full lick down the lane "
"I'm thinkin', my leddy," he went on, in absolute simplicity, "that sma' fut o' yer ain has danced mony a braw dance on mony a braw flure." "How old do you take me for then?" she rejoined, and went on drawing the garment over her foot by the shortest possible stages. "Ye'll no be muckle ower twenty," he said. "I'm only sixteen," she returned, laughing merrily.
He set on th' flure, with his hands on his belt an' his face as white as stone, an' rocked to an' fro. 'Ahoo, he says, 'ahoo, but me insides has torn loose, he says, 'an' are tumblin' around, he says. 'Say a pather an' avy, says I, I was that mad f'r th' big bosthoon f'r his blatherin'. 'Say a pather an' avy, I says; f'r ye're near to death's dure, avick. 'Am I? says he, raising up.
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