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An' when I got starved out, an' my feet were most froze walkin', I see this house, all shet up, an' I come here." He paused; and the silence was broken only by the slow, cosey ticking of the liberated clock. "Well!" said Mrs. Wadleigh, at last, in a ruminating tone. "Well! well! Be you a drinkin' man?" "I never was till I lost my job," he answered, sullenly. "I had a little then.
Meynell stood motionless. But the mind reacted in a flash. He thought "Now I shall know what she told him in those two hours!" "The Rector will be back, sir, direckly. I was to I tell you so pertickler. They had 'im out to a man in the Row, who's been drinkin' days, and was goin' on shockin' his wife was afraid to stop in the house. But he won't be long, sir."
They found ominous parallels of peddlers who had been murdered in byways, or stuck in swamps, and even cited a Tivertonian, of low degree, who was once caught beneath the chin by a clothes-line, and remained there, under the impression that he was being hanged, until the family came out in the morning, and tilted him the other way. "But then," they added, "he was a drinkin' man, an' Mr.
God save it to the North!" and he formed the sign of the cross in every direction to which he turned: "God save it to the South! + to the Aiste! + and to the Waiste! + Save it upwards! + and save it downwards! + Save it backwards! + and save it forwards! + Save it right! + and save it left! + Save it by night! + save it by day! + Save it here! + save it there! + Save it this way! + an' save it that way! + Save it atin'! + + + an' save it drinkin'! + + + + + + + + Oxis Doxis Glorioxis Amin.
But, I say, Guy, my boy, you han't took to drinkin', have ye?" "No, Captain," said Guy, with a smile, "nothing stronger than beer, and not much of that. I merely came here to meet Bax." Captain Bluenose whose name, by the way, had no reference to his nose, for that was small and red scratched his chin and stared into vacancy, as if he were meditating.
"Young feller, I think you've been drinkin', that's what I think about you. Your voice sounds to me like you've been drinkin' about a gallon of mixed ale. I think you dreamed all this here pipe about a robber and a pistol and an overcoat and a taxicab and all.
Then, taking thought and courage together, "Ye can't say the Bible ain't down on 'strong drink'?" There was no answer from the vanquished, and he went on in the overwhelming miller's voice: "Hil'ry hed better be purtectin' his-self from strong drink, 'stiddier the boy by makin' him stay up thar at the mill whar he knows thar's no drinkin' goin' on ez will git chances at it other ways, ef not through him, in the long life he hev got ter live.
Wouldn't the Honey be glad though, if she knew what a fine man that are Sherman is since he give up drinkin. Tell her that poor old Daddy blessed her with his dyin breath. Call Recta, Fanny. "I sprang to his bedside, and in a moment Recta was there also. The dying man took my hand and thanked me for all my attentions to him, and then his eyes rested tenderly upon his wife.
I'm through drinkin' an' raisin' hell. Me for a savings bank, Bart." "I said I'd string with you an' I will. After we deposit our money suppose we drop down to Jackson Street wharf an' say hello to Scraggs. I got a great curiosity to see what that new engineer has done to my boiler."
Lost everything his Old Man left him and then took to drinkin'. His wife quit him and his only child died callin' for its father. After that he drunk harder than ever, and finally died in the asylum thinkin' he was Marcus Daly." He demanded eagerly, "How clost have I come to it?" "Knowin' what I know, it makes me creepy settin' here listenin'." "Shoo!
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