"Jim commenced to bump Aleck's head up and down on the floor instead of you--and I knew he didn't have nothing against Aleck." "Bill--" "Bill, he'd quit right in the start." Sandy's grin became a laugh.
"Seems like pore old Bill always gits in bad when you commence on your third pint.

You wasn't through, though, seems like.

You was going to start in at the beginning and en-core the whole performance, and you started out after Bill.

Bill, he was lookin' for a hole big enough to crawl into by that time.

But you run into the preacher.