Says he, "'Honor be to Mudjekeewis! You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis--' "But I broke in, and says I, 'Beg your pardon, Mr.Longfellow, if you'll be so kind as to hold your yawp for about five minutes and let me get this grub ready, you'll do me proud.' Well, sir, after they'd filled up I set out the jug.

Mr.Holmes looks at it and then he fires up all of a sudden and yells-- "'Flash out a stream of blood-red wine! For I would drink to other days.' "By George, I was getting kind of worked up.

I don't deny it, I was getting kind of worked up.

I turns to Mr.Holmes, and says I, 'Looky here, my fat friend, I'm a-running this shanty, and if the court knows herself, you'll take whiskey straight or you'll go dry.' Them's the very words I said to him.

Now I don't want to sass such famous littery people, but you see they kind of forced me.
There ain't nothing onreasonable 'bout me; I don't mind a passel of guests a-treadin' on my tail three or four times, but when it comes to _standing_ on it it's different, 'and if the court knows herself,' I says, 'you'll take whiskey straight or you'll go dry.' Well, between drinks they'd swell around the cabin and strike attitudes and spout; and pretty soon they got out a greasy old deck and went to playing euchre at ten cents a corner--on trust.