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"G'day, sir," said he, bowing low "here's a man wants advice. He's had an accident, his wife's having a holiday at the King's expense." The conductor glanced rather contemptuously at the rag and bone man's big shabby figure. But the inn-keeper winked one eye, and said, "I mustn't forget the beer-man." He went behind the desk and wrote on a slate, "100."
The bakings being all duly consigned to their respective owners, and the beer-man having gone his rounds, the church bells ring for afternoon service, the shops are again closed, and the streets are more than ever thronged with people; some who have not been to church in the morning, going to it now; others who have been to church, going out for a walk; and others let us admit the full measure of their guilt going for a walk, who have not been to church at all.
A few of the younger men mourned for Mulcahy's beer, because the campaign was to be conducted on strict temperance principles, but as Dan and Horse Egan said sternly, 'We've got the beer-man with us. He shall drink now on his own hook. Mulcahy had not taken into account the possibility of being sent on active service.
Then the five of them went and sat on a gate a little way off and kept laughing in a nasty way, and whenever a boy went by they called out 'I say, 'ere's a go, and as often as not the new boy would hang about with them. It was disquieting, for though they had nearly all had lemonade we could see it had not made them friendly. The dogs did not growl at him as they had at the boys or the beer-man.
A few of the younger men mourned for Mulcahy's beer, because the campaign was to be conducted on strict temperance principles, but as Dan and Horse Egan said sternly, "We've got the beer-man with us. He shall drink now on his own hook." Mulcahy had not taken into account the possibility of being sent on active service.
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