He did not wait for permission, but went, and that was the last Mike
Flannery or Mrs. Muldoon ever saw of him.

"An' t' think of me a free trader every day of me born life," said Mike
Flannery that evening to Mrs. Muldoon, "but I be so no more. I see th'
protection there is in th' protective tariff, Missus Muldoon, mam."