"Should have gone a mucker ever so many times, old man, if it hadn't been for you," he said; "but you've always been at hand just at the critical moment to point out to me that I was playing the giddy goat and going to smash.

My name is Sam'l Hall, And I hate you one an' all, You're a gang of muckers all Damn your eyes!" "Listen!" said Lawlor, turning to his guest with a deprecating wave of the hand.

From that time Laurent had been a "damned mucker" to Arthur, Arthur a "stuck-up smart Alec" to Laurent.

"And if I hadn't been a mud-headed mucker I should have stripped to the waist.