"You would not be taking any of the whiskey yourself ?" he added in grave reproof.
"Oh, go on! you old fool!" replied the boy angrily.

"You will never be any good till it is all done, I know." Kalman spoke out of full and varied experience of the ways of men with the lust of drink in them.
"Well, well, maybe so.

But the more there iss for me, the less there iss for him," said Mackenzie, jerking his head toward the inner door.
"Why not empty it out ?" said Kalman in an eager undertone.
"Hoot! toot! man, and would you be guilty of sinful waste like yon?
No, no, never with Malcolm Mackenzie's consent.

And you would not be doing such a deed yourself ?" Mackenzie enquired somewhat anxiously.
Kalman shook his head.
"No," he said, "he might be angry.

But," continued the boy, "those potatoes must be finished to-day.