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Updated: July 16, 2025
The laborer whose ideals are such that he quits at the end of the fourth day is not the type of man who is going to spend the two holidays in pursuing higher aims in life; he is going to pass them in inaction, quite likely at the grog-shop.
"It is the hardest work I ever put my hand to, and not a grog-shop in the place," interposed Yawl. "Hold your jaw, Bill, and let me say my say out. We are tired of doing nothing, and if you like we will build you a sloop." "A sloop! To go away in, I suppose?" "That is as you please, sir. Anyhow, a sloop, say of fifteen or twenty tons, would be very useful.
As he spoke, Ned Frog staggered out of his own doorway, clenched his fists, and looked with a vindictive scowl at the strangers. A second glance induced him to unclench his fists and reel round the corner on his way to a neighbouring grog-shop. Whatever other shops may decay in that region, the grog-shops, like noxious weeds, always flourish.
They were a majority of the trustees elected by the people, and the School Commissioner elected by the people six poor creatures, selected from the grog-shop and the wharf, and intrusted with the most sacred interest of a republic, the education of its children. "The result of all this plunder," continues Mr.
"What shall we do with the fellow of mine?" the chief of the party asked Schomberg. "There must be a boarding-house somewhere near the port some grog-shop where they could let him have a mat to sleep on?" Schomberg said there was a place kept by a Portuguese half-caste. "A servant of yours?" he asked. "Well, he hangs on to me. He is an alligator-hunter. I picked him up in Colombia, you know.
The sexton o' the place was the only man as niver wint near the grog-shop, and no wan iver seed him overtook with drink, but it was a quare thing that no wan could rightly understand why he used to smell o' drink very bad sometimes.
The master of an English brig, an ignorant man, but excessively arrogant and presuming, one day took some of our men to task on the quay, accusing them of having taken a portion of his crew to a grog-shop, where they plied them with liquor until they were drunk, and then left them alone in their glory.
'Go-lang! cries the cap'en to his company, the horses, and away we go. We took up at a rural bar-room, after we had gone a few miles, an intoxicated gentleman who climbed upon the roof among the luggage, and subsequently slipping off without hurting himself, was seen in the distant perspective reeling back to the grog-shop where we had found him.
I wouldn't sign a pledge, though, because that, I thought, would be giving up my freedom. In coming here, I got past Harry Arnold's grog-shop pretty well, but when you came out so pleasantly at eleven o'clock, and asked me to go over to the house and take a drink, I couldn't refuse for the life of me especially as I felt as dry as a bone.
"Ay, ay, sir," was the answer; but no sooner had the midshipman disappeared up the street, than the men all jumped on shore to look out for a grog-shop. Not one was to be seen, and on that account the place had been selected by the captain for the landing of the boat's crew. In vain they searched.
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