The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.

profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure

We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

Same thing with wrikled old dried up men with a cock sack sagging down to their ankles. What good are they?