There is at least no difficulty in understanding why he should have been, as it were, concussed by Byron's greater massiveness and energy into a senseeasy to an impassioned devoteeof inferiority.

'Sick 'em, Towser!' "It would have been all right; we was playin' on velvet, and could have led that woman out of the store as easy as anything if that concussed Major hadn't 'a' come to in the wrong place.