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Having gauged the keg in his own rude way, and satisfied himself as to the quantity of its contents, he had made a calculation of how long it might last, and found that by a careful economy it could be depended upon for a period of several weeks.
As for rowdyism, it was known far and wide about Newbern that if you wanted to get thrown out of Herman's quick you had only to start some rough stuff, or even talk raw. It was said he juggled you out the door like you were an empty beer keg.
Two men and three women were seated in a circle; they were laughing and talking, and cutting and eating large slices of raw ham and bread, while they passed from one to another a three-gallon keg of wine, and drank out of the bung.
I never was fooled. Neither was Keg Rearick. But that is hurdling about three chapters. Honestly, we used to spend one day out of six building up our football team and the other five defending it from the Faculty. It positively hungered for a bite out of the line-up. It had us helpless.
At the tail of the armies come the maddened canteen-keepers, the Herr Professors, carrying at the side the little keg of wine with the powder which crazes the barbarian, the wine of Kultur.
My clothes, especially inside my trousers, were a perfect mass of prickly points. My great hope and consolation now was that I might soon meet the relief party. But where was the relief party? Echo could only answer where? About the 29th I had emptied the keg, and was still over twenty miles from the Circus. Ah! who can imagine what twenty miles means in such a case?
Often, after their hunts, they had met with traders, and exchanged the skins they had taken for such articles as the white man had to give guns, blankets, knives, powder, pipes, and fire-water; but this was the grand trading excursion of the year. When the party returned, after a few weeks' absence, they brought with them among other things, a keg of whisky.
"Where in Heligoland you come from?" he asked. "From Sarnia, Ontario," the red-coat answered. "Glad to meet you, friend. I've been looking for you several days." "For me!" said Barney blankly. "For you and for that keg of forty-rod you're carrying. No, don't drop it. We can talk more comfortably while both your hands are busy." The constable stepped forward and picked from the ground a rifle.
That's the way to talk! Well, now, be honest about it: What did you have for supper night afore last? Mince pie, was it? Why didn't you eat another slice? Then you'd have dreamed about a mackerel keg full of di'monds, most likely."
A box belonging to one of the men, and a rough bench built against the other unoccupied wall, and serving for a table, an iron pot for boiling meat, two tin quart pots in which to make their tea, two pint ones and dishes of the same metal, a two-gallon keg containing water, and which in an inverted position at times had to do duty as a stool, and two suspended bags containing tea and sugar, completed the furniture of the place.
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