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Samuel Johnson draws his own portrait as "a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning."
He was in one phase of the word a HARD and yet by no means a self-destructive drinker, for he had an iron constitution and could consume spirituous waters with the minimum of ill effect.
"Insufficient water drinking is perhaps the commonest cause of the interruption of the normal life processes," says Doctor Theron C. Stearns. But the common drinking cup in public places probably causes far more disease than the drinking itself prevents. Particles of dead skin and disease-germs are left in the cup by each drinker. Some of the most serious diseases may be carried in this way.
There was an instant's silence, full of omen to the culprits, and then Mrs. Meredith's wrath found vent. "Janice Meredith!" she cried. "On a Sabbath morning, when thee shouldst be setting thy thoughts in a fit order for church! And thou, Tabitha Drinker!" "It 's all my fault, Mrs. Meredith," hurriedly asserted Tabitha.
The following are a few of the cases of those who have gained temporally, as well as spiritually, through our work: Mrs. W. Of Haggerston Slum. Heavy drinker, wrecked home, husband a drunkard, place dirty and filthy, terribly poor. Saved now over two years, home A1., plenty of employment at cane-chair bottoming; husband now saved also. Mrs. R. Drury Lane Slum.
About eleven o'clock Mr. Jones came out to the building upon which Braddock was at work, and after chatting a little, said "This is grog time, aint it, Jim?" "Yes sir, I believe it is," was the reply. "Well, knock off then for a little while, and come into the house and take a dram." Now Mr. Jones was a very moderate drinker himself, scarcely touching liquor for weeks at a time, unless in company.
Coming into the dining room he stood by the door, scratching his head. Then he went out. It was as though he had said to himself, "Well, it's all right, everything is going all right, everything is lively, you see." All his life Jim had been a drinker of whisky and knew his limitations. His system as a drinking man had always been quite simple.
They brought the forty barrels of wine, and tapped them, and the Drinker tossed them down one after another, one gulp for each barrel. "Little enough," says he, "Why, I am thirsty still." "Very good," says the Tzar to his servant, when he heard that they had eaten all the food and drunk all the wine. "Tell the fellow to get ready for the wedding, and let him go and bathe himself in the bath-house.
No, they would buy the case for francs, but they would not risk dividing it among many, who would be devoured piecemeal by the diabolical O Lalala. "Kivi, the Vagabond, the Drinker of kava, is the chief to lead our cause," said Great Fern. "He has never gone to the Christian church. He believes still in the old gods of the High Place, and he is tattooed with the shark."
Engraver?" said the stranger with a peculiar intonation. "Why not, for example, Mr. Walker, Mr. Eater, Mr. Drinker, or Mr. Sleeper? Or ... no, that's enough!" He put the question with great calmness. "Well ..." said the Raven-mother.
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