"These two with the young children have."
"What do they do for a living?"
"One of them jobs about—but he is on the Island now."
"What for?"
"Just nothing at all, yer honor, he is as kind a husband as ever lived, only when he takes a drop too much once in a while."
"Hould your tongue now, Ellen Maguire, you know your husband is drunk every time he can get liquor, and that is as often as he can coax anybody that has got money into that dirty hole at the corner—Cale Jones's grocery. He is a burner, sir?"
"A burner. What is that?"
"He asks some one to go and take a drink with him, and then tells him to call for what he likes, and so he drinks and drinks, thinking all the time it is a treat, till he gets ready to go, and then the fellow who keeps the shop stops him and makes him pay for all the liquor the company have drank."
"Don't he refuse?"
"What's the use? He is burnt, and must stand it. If he refuse, they will take his coat, or hat, or shoes. If he gets off with his breeches on he is lucky."