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"That's your Boston hospitality," Red said
"Yeah, we got no place for fuggin bums," Gallagher kidded heavilyThe purple lumps on his face looked swollen and putrefactive in the dull light"Ah say only thing worse'n a damyankee is a fella from Boston
"They wouldn't let you in a town where you had to wear some fuggin shoes," Gallagher snortedHe lit a cigarette and turned over on his stomach"Got to know how to read and write if you want to come north," he said
Wilson was a little hurt"Listen, boy," he told him, "Ah may not be able to read eve'thin' so good, but they ain't a thing Ah cain't do if Ah set mah mind to't There had been that time, he was thinking, when Willy Perkins had bought the first washing machine in town, and when it had gone on the bum, he'd taken it all apart and then fixed it"They ain't a thing Ah cain't fix if it's piece of machinery," he saidHe took off his glasses and wiped the perspiration from them with a corner of his handkerchief"Once Ah remember there was a fella in town who had an English bicycleAmerican one wa'n't good 'nough for himHe lost some of the ball bearin's out of it, and they wa'n' none Ah could get to fit, so Ah jus' took an American ball-bearin' ring, and fit it to't He pointed one of his thick fingers at Gallagher and added, "Rode as good after Ah fixed it as it ever did
"Pretty clever," Gallagher sneered"In Boston you could get any kind of ball bearing you wanted
"A man's better if he can do without at times," Wilson muttered"I don't see where you're such a damn sight better doing without your pussy"That's somep'n a man should never do without," Wilson admittedHe rubbed his hand reflectively against one of the earthen walls of the hole"In Boston," Gallagher said, "if one of your buddies gets a piece, he lets you know about it Immediately afterward he felt ashamedHe made a mental note to remember what he had just said when he went to Chaplain Hogan for confessio