If ye wants to fight, jist you say that again.

I'm aching for a shindy anyhow: so now s'pose ye jist say that again." And Teddy began to show unmistakable signs of getting ready.
"Sorry--didn't mean--feel bad." "Oh blarney! Why didn't ye stick to it, and jist give me a chance to express meself?
But all's right; only, be careful and don't say anything like it again, that's all.
Pass along the jug, to wash me timper down, ye know." By this time Teddy's ideas were beginning to be confused, and his manner maudlin.

He had imbibed freely, and was paying the consequences.

The savage, however, had scarcely taken a swallow, although he had made as if to do so several times.

His actions would have led an inexperienced person to think that he was under the influence of liquor; but he was sober, and his conduct was feigned, evidently, for some purpose of his own.