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Life's too short to quarrel and we'll hall soon be dead! At the end of this lengthy speech, the philosophic Philpot abstractedly grasped a jam-jar and raised it to his lips; but suddenly remembering that it contained stewed tea and not beer, set it down again without drinking. 'Let us begin at the beginning, continued Owen, taking no notice of these interruptions.
The table where the two men still sat was pulled close to the fire that had been lighted partly in honor of Mr. Partington and partly in honor of Christmas, and was covered with a débris of plates and glasses and tobacco and bottles. There was a jam-jar filled with holly obtained from the butcher's shop, in the middle of the table.
A sack containing cement was leaning against one of the walls, and a bucket containing some stale whitewash stood in one corner. As each man came in he filled his cup, jam-jar or condensed milk tin with tea from the steaming pail, before sitting down. Most of them brought their food in little wicker baskets which they held on their laps or placed on the floor beside them.
At the right he placed a plumber's large hammer; at the left, a battered and much-chipped jam-jar, full of tea. Philpot having taken his seat on the pail at this table and announced his intention of bashing out with the hammer the brains of any individual who ventured to disturb the meeting, Barrington commenced: 'Mr Chairman and Gentlemen.
A jam-jar did service as a tumbler; there was one between the three of them, which meant that they had to drink quickly in order not to keep the next man waiting. Granger served out the whisky, and he served it neat when men are intent on getting drunk they do not procrastinate by adding water.
I started with an outfit and fifteen hundred dollars, now I haven't a cent." The Kentuckian raised his heavy eyes to the jam-jar. "Oh, help yourself." The Boy laughed, and shook his head. "I wish you wouldn't go," the other said very low. "You see, I've got to. Why, Nig and I owe you for a week's grub already."
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