"Have mercy on me!"
At length he finished it all, opened his tipsy eyes wide, and said in a hoarse, tired voice:
"Let me go to sleep."
But his master, looking at his watch, cried angrily:
"You have taken four minutes too long, you wretch!"
The others teased him:
"What a pity we did not take you on; you would have lost."
"However, he is a regular wild animal, that fellow."
"Ye—e—es, he ought to be in a show."
"You see what monsters the Lord can make of men, eh?"