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If a cheaper drink, refreshing and strengthening, could be made equally convenient and attractive, it would greatly help to break this hereditary thraldom to the Beer-Barrel. Another powerful auxiliary to this good work might be contributed in the form of a simple contrivance, which any man of mechanical genius and a kind heart might elaborate.
Even while bending under the weight of the beer-barrel, thousands of agricultural laborers in England have accomplished wonders by their indefatigable industry, integrity and economy. Put a future before them with a sun in it some object they may reach that is worth a life's effort, and as large a proportion of them will work for it as you will find in any other country.
The deacon was accustomed to say, with a grim smile, that he was one of the very few men in business whose reputation would allow him to sit upon a beer-barrel without giving rise to any suspicions. "Deacon," said the liquor-dealer, "you hadn't ought to talk about vat you don't understand. How long since you stopped drinkin'?"
For as the maiden walked along, her sandal became unfastened, and tripped her, so that she nearly fell upon her face, whereupon she paused, and placing her foot upon a beer-barrel that stood against the wall not far from Sidonia's chamber, began to fasten it, but lo! just at that moment the head of the ghost appeared rising through the trap-door, and looked round, then, as if aware of her presence, drew back, and she heard a noise as if it had jumped down on the earth beneath.
'Be so good, I said, as to turn this drunken person out of my house. 'I daren't do it, sir, was the reply; 'that would be to exceed my duty. 'Then, why are you here? 'I am here, sir, to see that you turn the man out yourself without using unnecessary violence. 'The man' was six feet high and as stout as a beer-barrel. I could no more have moved him than Skiddaw, and he knew it.
"Ah, do not ask me to enter, that would not be seemly; but I will sit down here on this beer-barrel in the corridor and listen; besides, music is improved by distance."
Cooper scratched his whiskers and looked at his wife. "She ought to know," said the latter. "We'll come and have a look at him," said Mr. Cooper. Mrs. Simpson pondered, and eyed him dubiously. "Come in and have a bit of supper," she said at last. "There's a nice piece of beef and pickles." "And Bill I mean the stranger sitting on the beer-barrel," said Mr. Cooper, gloomily.
I am satisfied that that man is by birth and education a gentleman. Are you ready, with your aristocratic notions, to recognize chiefly Miss Brown's title to position? What could her coat-of-arms be but the dollar symbol and the beer-barrel?" "Come, remember she is our hostess." "You are right; I should not speak so here; but my indignation gets the better of me."
At that instant, and almost simultaneously with her arrival and that of the candle, there was heard a loud and furious knocking at the street-door, which caused Newman Noggs to jump up, with great agility, from a beer-barrel on which he had been seated astride, and to exclaim abruptly, and with a face of ashy paleness, 'Bobster, by the Lord!
'You might as well talk to a beer-barrel. "He went off, dusting 'imself down with his little pocket-'ankercher, and arter the skipper 'ad told me wot he'd like to do, only he was too sorry for me to do it, 'e went back to the ship to put on a clean collar, and went off for the evening. "He always used to go off by hisself of a evening, and I used to wonder 'ow he passed the time.
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