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The dance ended. "Piph-h-h-h!" said tranter Dewy, blowing out his breath in the very finest stream of vapour that a man's lips could form. "A regular tightener, that one, sonnies!" He wiped his forehead, and went to the cider and ale mugs on the table. "Well!" said Mrs.
Forester," he added, turning to me "it's first best cider sperrits better a darned sight than that Scotch stuff you make such an etarnal fuss about, toting it up here every time, as if we'd nothing fit to drink in the country!" And to my sorrow I did taste it old apple whiskey, with Lord knows how much snake-root soaked in it for five years!
If, therefore, sir, the soldier is to have three quarts of this cider, when small beer is not easily to be procured, not only the innkeeper, but the army will be injured; for what greater harm can be done to any man, than to initiate him in a habit of intemperance? and what outrages and insolencies may not be expected from men trusted with swords, and kept, from day to day, and from month to month, in habitual drunkenness by a decree of the senate?
"The old woman must be averse to doctors. She no doubt is right, as nine times out of ten, but very few of them know what they are doing." "Thinking that you had not dined, Mrs. R. has prepared something for you. Try a little more of the Cider Berry Juice and honey. You will feel better prepared to enjoy what the madam has set before you." "I assure you, Col.
The great plough the only feast of the year that is worth anything, mutton and roast beef, ham and veal, cider by the gallon and a jovial company of good old sons of the soil. "It is horrible thus to see our old routine trampled underfoot, our ancestors' customs sneered at." Mr. Rougeant was extremely animated. Like nearly every other country Guernseyman, he was opposed to change.
He did not willingly take his hands out of his pockets, and did not spare expense in all that concerned himself, liking to eat well, to have good fires, and to sleep well. He liked old cider, underdone legs of mutton, glorias well beaten up. He took his meals in the kitchen alone, opposite the fire, on a little table brought to him all ready laid, as on the stage.
Directly the sluggard saw her, he thought her so enchanting that he whispered to himself: "At my behest, and by the orders of the pike, That this princess so fair may love me, I should like." Then he ordered his stove to take him back home, and when there he continued to eat onions and soup and to drink cider.
But you were absurdly the same. And then when you poured the cider out on to poor Gerty's skirt " "Was that one of my childish customs?" he asked. "I'd forgotten." "I nearly stood up and shook hands." "I'm glad you didn't." "I thought you'd feel like that. I remembered that you had been rather a touchy little boy " "I was thinking of your friends. Howard, for instance." "Why, do you know Howard?"
When a publisher's salesman takes you out to dinner, it is not surprising if the conversation turns toward literature about the time the last of the peas are being harried about the plate. "Well, gentlemen," said Roger as his guests assembled in his little cabinet, "it's a cold evening. Pull up toward the fire. Make free with the cider. The cake's on the table.
Destitute of all false pride, he bought whatever he thought he could sell to advantage, from a lot of damaged cordage to a pipe of old port; and he labored incessantly with his own hands. He was a thriving man during the first year of his residence in Philadelphia; his chief gain, it is said, being derived from his favorite business of bottling wine and cider.
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