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And to make an end of any weak misgivings, even before the ladies went to fill the pipes for the gentlemen the tanner drew with equal care, and even better nerve, the second bottle's cork, and expressed himself as follows: "Brother Steve hath done the right thing. We hardly expected it of him, by rights of his confounded stubbornness.
"Transmute, so potent are the spells they know Into pure gold the silver of to-day." Perhaps, reader, you are not altogether to be disappointed; and yet, for the present, it is only a glass of sparkling wine I wish you to take with me. You will please read on that delicate strip of paper around the bottle's neck the name in gilt, "Golden Wedding."
Thoburn's voice and the clink of bottles, "I have a can opener somewhere. You'll find the sauce a la Newburg " "Here, somebody, a glass, quick! A bottle's broken!" "Did anybody remember to bring salt and pepper?" "DEAR Mr. Thoburn!" It sounded like Miss Cobb. "Think of thinking of all this!" "The credit is not mine, dear lady," Mr. Thoburn said. "Where the deuce is that corkscrew?
Now, reader, allow me to screw up a little philosophy here, and try to show you the why and the wherefore of the particular direction of our bottle's voyage. Man has been defined by some lexicographer as a "cooking animal." I think it would be more appropriate to call him a learning animal, for man does not always cook, but he never ceases to learn also to unlearn.
He caught him round the loins, bedding his fingers like grisly claws into his flesh, and hugging him to his heart. The man's ghost, caught like a broken cork in a gurgling bottle's neck, gasped with the embrace. Loosening him suddenly, Israel hurled him from him against the bulwarks. That instant another report was heard, followed by the savage hail "You down sail at last, do ye?
Frank kept on the bottle's paper jacket, and as the single tumbler of the party circled from mouth to mouth, each of them tried to give the honest drink the false air of a medicinal potion of some sort; and to see Aunt Melissa sipping it, no one could have put his hand on his heart and sworn it was not elderberry wine, at the worst.
"Captain," said I, "the gentleman is seeking a dram, and the bottle's out. Will you give me the key?" They all started and turned about. "Why, here's our chance to get the firearms!" Riach cried; and then to me: "Hark ye, David," he said, "do ye ken where the pistols are?" "Ay, ay," put in Hoseason. "David kens; David's a good lad.
They cautiously shrank back behind the screen of the bed-curtains out of his sight. "Juniper, my boy!" exclaimed the wretched sufferer, "where's my mother? Gone down to the rectory! Ah, they're water-drinkers there. That don't do for you and me, Juniper. `This bottle's the sun of our table. Ha, ha! a capital song that!" Lady Oldfield sank on her knees, and could not repress her sobs.
There ain't a drink in that bottle. 'Go 'long, says I, 'the bottle's half full. But he stuck it out there wasn't a drink in it and afore he'd pay me my bet he had to prove it to himself. Even then, after he'd swallowed the whole of it, he vowed and declared there wasn't a real drink.
"What's the matter, father?" said Tom, smiling, and looking at me. "Matter, you scamp! How dare you touch the bottle?" "The bottle the bottle's there, as good as ever." "The grog is what I mean how dare you drink it?" "I was half-way between my mother and you, and so I drank success and long life to you both. Ain't that being a very dutiful son?" "I wish I had my legs back again, you rascal!"
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