When they entered Mory's, Tom Kelly, Dopey McNab, and Buck Waters were already grouped in the inner room.
"Well, old flinthead, how do you feel after last night?" said Kelly, making room for them.
"Fine," said Dink mendaciously, secretly pleased at the tribute to his sporting talents before Regan.
"More'n I can say," said Dopey, affectionately feeling of his head. "Curse the man who invented fish-house punch."
"'CURSE THE FELLOW WHO INVENTED FISH-HOUSE PUNCH'"—Page 290.
"Get home all right?" continued Kelly.
"Sure."
"I had a little tiff with a cop. If he'd been smaller, I'd have taken his shield away. He was most impudent. Never mind, I beat him in a foot race."