"You beggar!" snarled Barkins angrily.  "Why, you're worse than I am. Look at him, Gnat!  There, I will own it.  I felt sick as soon as I knew what was going to happen, but I won't be such a bumptious, bragging sneak as he is.  Look at his face.  It's green and yellow.  He wants to go worse than we do."