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Updated: May 6, 2025
A man with a pail of spring water with a wooden cup floating on the surface in one hand, and a bottle of whiskey and glass in the other, now approached the swarm, every one helping himself as he pleased. This man is the most important personage at the "Bee," and is known by the appellation of the "Grog-bos." On this occasion his office was anything but a sinecure.
It's hardly likely the fellow will attempt to address you again, at least on that subject. So the old gentleman very impatiently watched the log heaps piling, and the teams straining, and the 'grog-bos' going his rounds, for a while longer. We left Andy Callaghan over his victim, with a flourishing shillelagh.
Daisy Burn might as well be in the bottom of a pit; all one can see is the sky and the walls of forest outside the clearing. Now my plan is Reginald, my boy, as the grog-bos passed within hearing distance, 'give me the cup. The day is sultry to an extreme, eh? Having refreshed his throat, he proceeded: 'My plan is, to set on fire that strip of forest, eh?
Reginald Armytage volunteered to be grog-bos, an office which suited his 'loafing' propensities, since his duties consisted in carrying about a pail of water and a bottle of whisky to the knots of workmen. His worthy father's position was almost as ornamental, for after one or two feeble efforts with a handspike, he went to talk with Mr.
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