It was all done a-purpose.

They said I was the only man from Lebanon they wouldn't have cut up and boiled, and they was going to have the blood of the Lebanon lot before they'd done.

I pretended to get mad, and I talked wild.

I said that Lebanon would get them first, that Lebanon wouldn't wait, but'd have it out; and I took off my coat and staggered about--blind-fair blind boozy.

I tripped over some fool's foot purposely, just beside a bench against the wall, and I come down on that bench hard.