bar-keeping

Updated: April 30, 2025

So the brawl passed with no other casualty than might seem comic to the inhumane. Yet we looked round on serious faces and a fact that spoke volumes Tom was putting up the shutters on the bar. Custom might go elsewhere, Mr. Williams might profit as he pleased, but Tom had had enough of bar-keeping for that day. Indeed the event had hung on a hair.

Robert Louis Stevenson - In the South Seas