The foreman says you're some better'n you used to be, but that's no way to handle--Get out the way and let me show you once." "Better be careful," Bibbs warned him, stepping to one side.
"Careful?
Boh!" Sheridan seized a strip of zinc from the box.

"What you talkin' to yourself about?
Tryin' to make yourself think you're so abused you're goin' wrong in the head ?" "'Abused'?
No!" shouted Bibbs.

"I was SINGING--because I 'like it'! I told you I'd come back and 'like it.'" Sheridan may not have understood.

At all events, he made no reply, but began to run the strip of zinc through the machine.

He did it awkwardly--and with bad results.
"Here!" he shouted.