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We must get some brandy it's cheaper," said Brigson; and accordingly some brandy was brought in, which the boys diluted with hot water, and soon despatched. "Here! before you're all done swilling," said Brigson, "I've got a health; 'Confound muffs and masters, and success to the anti's." "And their chairman, suggested Wildney. "And their chairman, the best fellow in the school," added Brigson.
"F. W. Newman." I quote next from a note written three years later, which ascribes his health to the Triple alliance of his three "Anti's" anti-alcohol, anti- tobacco, and anti-flesh food. "How many a pleasant year has run its course since I first visited you at Penrith! It was the summer of 1842, I think, that we ascended High Street together, a company of seventeen.
"What do you know about it?" demanded Miss Slammer doubtfully. "Did you read the article that came out last Sunday 'Anti's to the front, by a Wife and Mother. That was me. I thought I gave a pretty fair line of argument." "Jimmie, you are the limit," exclaimed Miss Slammer. Then she paused and began to think quickly.
Spiritualists, bone-rubbers, anti-vivisectionists, all sort of anti's in fact, those who have fads about education or fads against it, Perfectionists, Daughters of the Dove of Peace, Sons of the Roaring Torrent, itinerant peace-mongers all these may have a real genius among them once in forty years; but to look for an exception to the common run of yellow dogs and damfools among them is like opening oysters with the hope of finding pearls.
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