“Do I moind it? I do!”
“Did I let the Mormons take you then?”
“No, bedad.”
“When King Strang's constables came galloping down here to arrest you, didn't I run in water to my waist to push you off in your boat?”
“You did, bedad!”
“I didn't give you up to them, and I won't give this family up to you. They're not doing you any harm. Let them peaceably leave Beaver.”
“But the two wives of him,” argued Pat Corrigan.
“How many wives and children have you?”
“Is it 'how many wives,' says the hay then! Wan wife, by the powers; and tin childer.”
“Haven't you about as large a family as you can take care of?”