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`` Then how 're you goin ' to build the house ? '' `` Ax me no questions now ; I want to smoke me pipe . '' But he had raised a devil difficult to lay . Morning , noon , and night it was `` Paddy , when are you going to begin the house ? '' or , `` Paddy , I guess I 've got a way to make the canes stick together without nailing . '' Till Mr Button , in despair , like a beaver , began to build . There was great cane-cutting in the cane-brake above , and , when sufficient had been procured , Mr Button struck work for three days .