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Gold studs glittered in his shirt. 'Well, you are going to let us have your land at last? he shouted. 'I don't know, said the peasant in a low voice, 'maybe I shall sell it. The miller roared with laughter. 'Wilhelm, he bellowed, as if Wilhelm, who was officiating at the beer-barrel on the bench, were half a mile off, 'pour out some beer for this man.
So Gambrinus lived on tranquilly for a century or two, and drank so much beer that he turned into a beer-barrel. The character of gullibility attributed to the Devil in these legends is probably derived from the Trolls, or "night-folk," of Northern mythology.
He was perspiring freely, and did not look entirely satisfied. The next scene which was conjured up on the stage was a forest. It was wonderfully fine, with pelargoniums blooming on the ground, and a spring which was flowing out of something green. "That is a covered beer-barrel!" said Pelle, and now Lasse too could see the tap, but it was wonderfully natural.
They would be going to the harbor or the dunes by the sea; there would be dancing on the grass, and perhaps some would get to fighting about a girl. But he wasn't going to be driven out of the pack like a mangy dog; he didn't care a hang for the whole lot of them! He threw off his apron and established himself on a beer-barrel which stood outside before the gate.
The old men, women, and children were walking along solemnly, singing, but the young fellows and the workmen stood in groups, smoking and laughing. Once they made a noisy interruption when Wilhelm Hamer, who presided at the beer-barrel, lifted up his glass. The young men shouted 'Hoch! hurrah! Old Hamer looked round disapprovingly, and the schoolmaster shook his fist.
Yes; but there is not in all the city to-day an inebriate that did not begin with ale. "XXX:" What does that mark mean? XXX on the beer-barrel: XXX on the brewer's dray: XXX on the door of the gin-shop: XXX on the side of the bottle. Not being able to find any one who could tell me what this mark means, I have had to guess that the whole thing was an allegory: XXX that is, thirty heartbreaks.
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.
"Just stop a moment and think what a beer-barrel you make of yourself; a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon, a pint at six o'clock, and a pint when you have done work almost a gallon each day! Why, I could not hold half as much as that; I should run over."
The sun was nearing the western horizon and a deep apricot glow warmed the mown field and the undulating foliage in the far distance. The men began to scatter here and there, putting aside their long wooden rakes, and two of them went off to bring Roger, the cart-horse, from his shed. "Uncle Hugo!" The old man, who still sat impassively on the beer-barrel, looked up. "Ay! What is it?"
A terrible stramash of a lumber, and a plunging and a groaning we heard somewhere; and rushing out, lo and behold! it was no other than Diggory Dyson, the parish priest, who had gone headlong to the bottom of the cellar steps, and had he not cut his temples against the brass tap of a beer-barrel and bled freely, he might have died on the spot. And that was a man set up to guide the multitude!
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