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The sergeant asked for pepper and salt; minced the food fine and made it savoury, and kept administering it by teaspoonfuls; urging Philip to drink from time to time from his own cup of dog's-nose. A burning thirst, which needed no stimulant from either pepper or salt, took possession of Philip, and he drank freely, scarcely recognizing what he drank.
"My grandfather," said the banjo, "drank 'dog's-nose, my father drank 'dog's-nose, and I drink 'dog's-nose. If that ain't heredity, there's no virtue in the board schools." "Ah!" said the piccolo, "you're always a-boasting of your science. And so, I suppose, your son'll drink 'dog's-nose, too?"
"What did you say your grandfather did?" asked the piccolo. "He played the clarinet." "You said he blew his 'dog's-nose." "Don't be a ass, Fred!" said the banjo, aggrieved. "How the blazes could a man blow his dog's nose, unless he muzzled it with a handkercher, and then twisted its tail?
He drew critically at his "churchwarden" a moment or so, leaned forward, emptied his glass into his capacious receptacles, and, giving his stomach a shift, as if to accommodate it to its new burden, proceeded as follows: "Music and malt is my nat'ral inheritance. My grandfather blew his 'dog's-nose, and drank his clarinet like a artist and my father "
The sergeant asked for pepper and salt; minced the food fine and made it savoury, and kept administering it by teaspoonfuls; urging Philip to drink from time to time from his own cup of dog's-nose. A burning thirst, which needed no stimulant from either pepper or salt, took possession of Philip, and he drank freely, scarcely recognizing what he drank.
"An' how would ye know, at all, at all?" "How would I know, is it? D'ye take me for a fool?" "Arrah, thin, sure I would not judge ye by yer looks!" That is a model bar spar, the combatants drinking dog's-nose, sometimes called "powdher an' ball" a drink of neat whiskey washed down by a pot of porter. The Connaught folk drink whiskey neat, but usually follow the spirit with water.
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