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Dat's on der level, too." Both lads were battered and bruised, and there was blood on their faces when they retired to their corners at the command from Horner. "He's a nut," confessed Frank. "He has given me some soakers, and he takes his medicine as if he liked it." "You'll finish him next round, sure," fluttered Harry. "I shall buck the kickit I mean kick the bucket if you don't." "How is it?"
Such a man as a commercial traveller imbibes twenty or thirty nips in the course of the day; he eats well in the evening, though he is usually repelled by the sight of food in the morning, and he preserves an outward appearance of ruddy health. Then there are the female soakers, whom doctors find to be the most troublesome of all their patients.
Every one of those old outlaws who haunt our New England ponds and marshes, water-soaked and soakers of something else, intimate with the pure fluid in that familiarity which breeds contempt, has yet a wholesome side when you explore his knowledge of frost and freshet, pickerel and musk-rat, and is exceedingly good company while you can keep him beyond scent of the tavern.
With what a sense of utter weariness, not fully realized till then, we shall sink down on our own threshold, when we reach it. The moral effect of being without a settled abode is very wearisome. Our coachman from Grasmere to Windermere looked like a great beer-barrel, oozy with his proper liquor. I suppose such solid soakers never get upset. August 2d.
When they have a Fourth of July procession it generally snows on them, and they do say that as a general thing when a man calls for a brandy toddy there, the bar keeper chops it off with a hatchet and wraps it up in a paper, like maple sugar. And it is further reported that the old soakers haven't any teeth wore them out eating gin cocktails and brandy punches.
"I suppose, Pinto," said Crux, with a smile of contempt, "that you've bin to hear that mad fellow Gough, who's bin howlin' around in these parts of late?" "That's so," retorted Pinto, flushing with sudden anger. "I've been to hear J.B. Gough, an' what's more I mean to take his advice in spite of all the flap-jack soakers 'tween the Atlantic and the Rockies.
For several trips after this, my handsome fellow was wild and careless; his splendid constitution enabled him to drink with impunity the abominable stuff sold by the Copers, and he was merely merry when older soakers were delirious. His father and he parted, and the old man stayed at home as ship's husband to a firm of smack owners, and the lad had his head free.
With what a sense of utter weariness, not fully realized till then, we shall sink down on our own threshold, when we reach it. The moral effect of being without a settled abode is very wearisome. Our coachman from Grasmere to Windermere looked like a great beer-barrel, oozy with his proper liquor. I suppose such solid soakers never get upset. August 2d.
Martineau, after he had done justice to the bridge over his shoulder. "Yes, the place has a floating population of quiet industrious soakers. The incurable river man and the river girl end at that." Dr. Martineau encouraged Sir Richmond by an appreciative silence.
Pepper had a nasty cut over the left eye and Jack had a lump behind his right ear. "They must have been hit with soakers," was Dale's comment, as he bent over Pepper. "Looks as if Pepper was hit with a stone," came from Andy. "A stone!" cried Bart Field. "Yes, a stone! That cut was never made by a snowball, or a piece of ice, either!" "Shall I get a doctor?" asked Stuffer, anxiously.
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