"No," said Jack, again.
"So this is your first time out?"
"Yes," said Jack, who looked deeply humiliated.
"Will, thin," said O'Halloran, loftily, "allow me to infarrum you, sir, that this is the thirty-seventh toime that I've had the plisure of taking part in a jool, ayther as principal or sicond."
Whereupon Jack was suppressed.
In all this the doctor took no part He looked cold, wet, uncomfortable, and unhappy.
And now O'Halloran turned to me again.
"Me boy," said he, "if ye'll not grant me this as a feevor, I'll cleem it as a roight."
"A right?" said I.
"Yis," said O'Halloran, solemnly, "a roight!"