Boggs is abashed.
"'Which these insultin' bluffs of Dave's,' says Boggs, as we canvasses the play a bit later, 'would cut me to the quick, but I knows it ain't on the level, Dave ain't himse'f when he declines said nosepaint--his intellects ain't in camp.' "This ontoward an' onmerited rebuke to Boggs is followed, by further breaks as hard to savey.

Dave ain't no two days alike.

One time he's that haughty he actooally passes Enright himse'f in the street an' no more heed or recognition than if Wolfville's chief is the last Mexican to come no'th of the line.

Then later Dave is effoosive an' goes about riotin' in the s'ciety of every gent whereof he cuts the trail.

One day he won't drink; an' the next he's tippin' the canteen from sun-up till he's claimed by sleep.