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With a glance Tuttle took in the group of men with tense, excited faces, gathered at one side of the room, Ellhorn, with a revolver in each hand, at the other, and the saloon-keeper emerging from underneath the bar. "Nick, you 're drinkin' again! Put up your guns!" Tom exclaimed angrily. "After 'em, Tommy! They went in there! Whoo-oo-ee-ee!" yelled Nick, rushing toward the middle door.

I mind Charley well as a cute little yellow-haired divil, always laughing, always in mischief, and me chasin' after him a big slob of a boy. I used to carry him up an' down the tenement stairs. I learned him to skate and now here he is drinkin' himself puffy, whilst I am an old broken-down hack at forty-five." He looked up at her with a sheen of tears in his eyes.

"This is my key," said Mrs Partridge, feeling in her pocket, "an' the other one is under the flower-pot for William, if I'm out. I dunno what you mean." "I mean this is the key of yer new 'ouse in Surry Hills," said Chook, fumbling hopelessly with the piece of iron. "You've bin drinkin', an' the beer's gone to yer 'ead," said Mrs Partridge, unwilling to take offence.

She put it down as if it were made of glass. "I'll git Miss Jones to alter the bow, an' put the feathers farther back," she said, like one in a dream. "I thought yer wouldn't wear it at any price," said Chook, delighted, but puzzled. "Sometimes you talk like a man that's bin drinkin'," said Pinkey, with the faintest possible smile.

He's goin' back again after. Sandy an' all his gang are at the camp back o' the lake there waitin' for the ice to break, an' I seen Jimmy Archie Red yisterday, an' he says they're havin' a whale o' a time, drinkin' an' cuttin' up like sin." "Aye, aye," said Peter, Senior, shaking his head sadly, "poor Sandy's goin' like his father, Ah'm afraid; Neil More was too fond o' the drink.

There's no danger of anybody spoilin' your drinkin', if they could interfere with your atin'. You guess, Dannie." "The dominick hen is setting," ventured Dannie, and Mary's face showed that he had blundered on the truth. "She is," affirmed Mary, pouring the tea, "but it is real mane of you to guess it, when I've so few new things to tell.

"My son," he declared vehemently, "my son ain't gin over ter drinkin' whiskey, tax or no tax. An' he ain't got no call ter stagger like some folks!" And despite all apology and protest, he left the house in a huff. His old bones ached with the unwonted exercise, and were rudely enough jarred by the rough roads and the awful gaits of his ancient steed.

When we've got a big enough crowd to show we mean business, we must march back here and ride Bulger out of this camp! I don't hanker arter Vigilance Committees, as a rule it's a rough remedy it's like drinkin' a quart o' whisky agin rattlesnake poison but it's got to be done!

We aal hed to get out, an' a chap in green clothes sed we shood hev to wait ten minits. Thur wur a lot gwain into a room, an' I seed they wur eatin' and drinkin'; so I ses to meself, "I be rayther peckish, I'll go in an' see if I can get summut." So in I goes; an' 'twer a vine pleace, wi' sum nation good-looking gurls a-waitin'. "I'll hev a half-quartern loaf," I sed.

We've brought you some pudding." Here a parcel of currant pudding was taken out of his jacket pocket and held out temptingly. "A' don't believe a word! Ye've been in the pantry a smashin' the missus' things, and a eatin' and a drinkin' all ye can lay hands on begone, I tell ye!"