11/17 'It's makin' the fizzin' n'ise awful to-night,' he says. 'An' the little black man wit' the gassly white forehead is a-laughin',' he says. 'He's a-laughin' an' a-pokin' the big, black, fizzin', ugly-faced snake wit' his broomstick--" Della was unable to endure the description. "Poor Tom! I thought Flora was wrong last week whin she hid the whisky. 'Twas takin' it away from him that killed him--an' him already so sick!" "Well," said Mrs.Cullen, "he hardly had the strengt' to drink much, she tells me, after he see the big snake an' the little black divil the first time. |