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Updated: June 2, 2025
Behind it the great curse of the West is in evidence, the chief trouble of unionism drink, in its most selfish, barren, and useless form. All was quiet at Stiffner's. It was after midnight, and Stiffner lay dead-drunk on the broad of his back on the long moonlit verandah, with all his patrons asleep around him in various grotesque positions.
After a good half-hour's decision on the time when the buyer might take possession, and on the various punctilios which the peasantry bring forward when concluding a bargain, in the midst of assertions and counter-assertions, the filling and emptying of glasses, the giving of promises and denials, Violette suddenly fell forward with his head on the table, not tipsy, but dead-drunk.
So I go into the saloon where there was the table set out for supper, so grand that ye wouldn't believe it, and them four Dublin waiters was all lying dead-drunk on the saloon floor. "'I put out the spirit decanters on the supper-table, says Mr. Murphy, 'and see! Them Dublin waiters have every drop of it drunk on me, he goes on, showing me the empty decanters.
"Array'd in order o' merit," said he, pointing with his mop like a showman to the line of figures before him. We drew near. "This here is Matt. Soames, master o' this vessel an' he's dead." "Dead?" "Dead-drunk, that is. O the gifted man! Come up!" He thrust the mop in the fellow's heavy face. "There now! Did he move, did he wink? 'No, says you. O an accomplished drunkard!"
The interpreter was away, Juan of Aragon was away, the muleteers had returned, according to instructions received over-night, to Marcapata with the animals, and the peons were found dead-drunk behind the mud wall of the last house in the village.
On the occasion when he had quoted a verse of poetry to them, one of them said to him with a sidelong glance: "You seem to be dead-struck on Nature, Ingolby." To that, with a sly quirk of the mouth, and meaning to mystify his wooden-headed questioner still more, he answered: "Dead-struck? Dead-drunk, you mean. I'm a Nature's dipsomaniac as you can see," he added with a sly note of irony.
The lady and her friends were very much alarmed, and left on the early train next morning, without completing their visit. "They will close up by all getting dead-drunk," said our friend, the Professor. "But," we asked, "why does not the faculty at once interfere in this disgraceful procedure?" "They have got us lately," he replied, "where we are powerless.
As the Caffres were busy with the carcasses of the elephants, and most of the Hottentots dead-drunk, it was useless to think of proceeding until the following day. Indeed, the oxen and horses were all scattered in every direction by the elephants breaking into the caravan, and it would be necessary to collect them, which would require some time.
Some of the women were trying to get their drunken husbands home, one man had fallen down dead-drunk beside the door in the mud, and his wife was sitting patiently beside him.
Already the dead-tired, or possibly the dead-drunk, had cast themselves, as if they had been shot down there, with their faces in the lifeless grass, and lay in greasy heaps and coils where the delicate foot of fashion had pressed the green herbage.
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