“Whurroo!” yelled Barney jubilantly. “Shure it’s aisy enough to whip such omadhouns as they be!”
“Golly! don’ yo’ be too suah, I’ish,” remonstrated Pomp.
“What do yez know about it, naygur?”
“Suah, I know jes’ as much as yo’ does, I’ish.”
“G’long! Yez are a big stuff.”
“I amn’t so big a wan as yo’ am.”
“Say that agin, an’ I’ll break the face av yez.”
“Huh! Yo’ can’t do it.”
The two rogues would have had a friendly set-to then and there but Frank interposed.
“None of that,” he cried, sternly; “there is serious work before us.”