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There were three-quarters of a cask full. It was sparkling clear ice, and chipping off a piece and sucking it, I found it to be very sweet fresh water. Thus was my labour rewarded. I cut off as much as, when dissolved, would make a couple of gallons, but stayed a minute to regain my breath and take a view of this well or hollow before going aft.
Taggett did not reply at once, and then very coldly: "You will pardon me for suggesting it, but it will be necessary to ascertain if this is the cask which Durgin hoped, and also if the head has not been repainted since." "I understand what your doubt implies. It is your duty to assure yourself of these facts, and nothing can be easier.
Young Aaron was very clever at it. He pottered round the inn of an evening and Saturday afternoons, doing odd jobs in the cellar with the barrels; for your true toping spirit loves to knock the hoops and to work about the cask, and carry the jugs in answer to the cry for some more 'tangle-legs' for thus they called the strong beer.
New oak casks are fatal from the tannin which soaks out; fir casks are safe and good. So delicate and sensitive are the minute creatures which people the sea, that they have been found dead on opening a cask in which a new oak bung was the only source of poison.
We remained in camp to rest the horses, and took the opportunity of carrying up all the water we could, every time the animals went backwards and forwards, to a large cask which had been fixed on the dray.
Nevertheless, these two great wine-tasters held to what they had said. Time went by, the wine was sold, and when they came to clean out the cask, they found in it a small key hanging to a thong of cordovan; see now if one who comes of the same stock has not a right to give his opinion in such like cases."
Not your face only, but your whole length a good measure from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head was like a brimming cask of satisfaction." "Well, there is much that is lovely in this world!" cried Pollux, stretching himself comfortably and lifting his arms with his hands clasped far above his head towards heaven. "Has anything specially pleasant happened to you?"
'Go, my own, draw some for them, said Granny Ulitka to her daughter. 'Take it from the cask that's begun, my precious. The girl took the keys and a decanter and went out of the hut with Vanyusha. 'Tell me, who is that young woman? asked Olenin, pointing to Maryanka, who was passing the window. The old man winked and nudged the young man with his elbow.
Truly, it were enviable to be less apprehensive, less retentive; to be fitted with a colander-mind, like that penal cask which forty-nine Danaïdes might not keep from leaking; to be, sometimes at least, suffered for a holiday to ramble brainless in the paradise of fools.
I blush now, after forty years, when I think of it. To be trussed like a fowl and to listen helplessly to the rude laughter of these boors to know, too, that my mission had come to an ignominious and even ridiculous end I would have blessed the man who would have sent a bullet through the cask and freed me from my misery.
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