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After-dinner boozing and three-bottle men are a tradition of the dark ages; and yet there are dozens of young men in London gifted young men some of them who are doing this thing every year. Half the untimely deaths you hear of might be traced home to the brandy bottle, if a man had only the curiosity to look into first causes. One man dies of congestion of the lungs.
There are people all over the country ready to back you, if you'd only back yourselves. But you won't. You won't fight that's the worst of you; that's what makes all of us sick when we come down to talk to you. You won't spare twopence halfpenny a week from boozing not you! to subscribe to a union, and take the first little step towards filling your stomachs and holding your heads up as free men.
The head bookkeeper shook his head at Mr. Wrenn's inquiry: "Charley ain't here any longer." "Ain't here?" "No. He got through. He got to boozing pretty bad, and one morning about three weeks ago, when he had a pretty bad hang-over, he told Guilfogle what he thought of him, so of course Guilfogle fired him." "Oh, that's too bad. Say, you don't know his address, do you?"
"You'll find him boozing in one of the saloons, like enough, the old sot." I walked out without further word, for the longing for his throat grew almost more than I could bear, and went across to Paddy Dougan's. Paddy expressed great delight at seeing me again and, on my asking for Ould Michael, became the picture of woe.
I gave Isaac a dram to kep his heart up, and he sung and leuch as if he had been boozing with some of his drucken cronies; for feint a hair cared he about auld kirkyards, or vouts, or dead folk in their winding-sheets, with the wet grass growing over them. Then, although I tried to stop him, he began to tell stories of Eirish ressurrectioners, and ghaists, seen in the kirkyard at midnight.
It was hard, said the Academics, that a grave and learned man, sent by a large body of grave and learned men to the Great Council of the nation, should be thought less fit to sit in that Council than a boozing clown who had scarcely literature enough to entitle him to the benefit of clergy.
Blow me if I don't prefer this to the hother." "I do not understand," said Herrick. "I have to ask you to excuse me; I do not understand." "Well, now, see here, Herrick," said Davis. "I'm going to have a word with you anyway upon a different matter, and it's good that Huish should hear it too. We're done with this boozing business, and we ask your pardon for it right here and now.
If one-half that the leaders of the factions, now warring over this $5 per diem bone, say about each other be true and I have no evidence to the contrary they would disgrace a boozing ken on Boiler avenue.
It puzzles me, may the Lord chastise me! Such an uncultured people that you really cannot tell whether they have a windpipe in their throats or some other sort of internal arrangement. Were you choking, or what?" he asked, addressing the bass Gennady Semitchov, the innkeeper's brother. "Why?" "What is your voice like? It rattles like a saucepan. I bet you were boozing yesterday! That's what it is!
Thus Prideaux prattles on, about Admiral Van Tromp, "a drunken greazy Dutchman," whom Speed, of St. John's, conquered in boozing; of the disputes about races in Port Meadow; of the breaking into the Mermaid Tavern. "We Christ Church men bear the blame of it, our ticks, as the noise of the town will have it, amounting to 1,500 pounds."
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