Casey bought it just to show who was boss, he or the landlord.

The first thing he did when we moved in was to take down the nicely framed rules that said we must not cook cabbage nor onions nor fish, nor play music after ten o'clock at night, nor do any loud talking in the halls.
"Every day for a week Casey cooked cabbage, onions and fish.

He sat up nights to play the graphophone.

He stayed home to talk loudly and play bucking bronk with Babe all up and down the stairs and in the halls.
Our rent was paid for a month in advance, and the landlord was too little and old to fight.

So he sold out cheap--and it really was a good stroke of business for us, though not deliberate.
"Well-sir, at first we lost tenants who didn't enjoy the freedom of their neighbors' homes.