With a savage curse he snatched up the bottle, and at the same time made a fierce but unsuccessful lunge at the boy.
"You little deevil!" he said fiercely, "I will be knocking your head off!" Kalman jibed at him.

"You are a nice sort of fellow to be on a job.
What will your boss say ?" Mackenzie's face changed instantly.
"The boss ?" he said, glancing in the direction of the house.
"The boss?
What iss the harm of a drop when you are not well ?" "You not well!" exclaimed Kalman scornfully.
Mackenzie shook his head sadly, sinking back upon the grass.

"It iss many years now since I have suffered with an indisposeetion of the bowels.

It iss a coalic, I am thinking, and it iss hard on me.

But, Callum, man, it will soon be denner time.