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The exception we speak of was no other than Mr , Hycy Burke , and the family was that of the Hogans . As for Teddy Phats , he was not the man to trouble himself by the loss of a moment 's indifference upon any earthly or other subject , saving and excepting always that it involved the death , mutilation , or destruction in some shape , of his great and relentless foe , the Gauger , whom he looked upon as the impersonation of all that is hateful and villainous in life , and only sent into this world to war with human happiness at large . That great professional instinct , as the French say , and a strong unaccountable disrelish of Hycy Burke , were the only two feelings that disturbed the hardened indifference of his nature . One night , shortly after Bryan 's visit to his landlord , the Hogans and Phats were assembled in the kiln between the hours of twelve and one o'clock , after having drunk nearly three quarts of whiskey among them . The young savages , as usual , after the vagabond depredations or mischievous exercises of the day , were snoring as we have described them before ; when Teddy , whom no quantity of liquor could affect beyond a mere inveterate hardness of brogue and an indescribable effort at mirth and melody , exclaimed -- `` Fwhy , dhen , dat 's the stuff ; and here 's bad luck to him that paid fwor it . '' `` I 'll not drink it , you ugly _ keout _ , '' exclaimed Philip , in his deep and ruffianly voice ; `` but come -- all o ' yez fill up and drink my toast . Come , Kate , you crame of hell 's delights , fill till I give it .