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But I used to get through a tidy lot of liquor, one way and another, and most generally two or three pints too many of a Saturday night. Then, of a Sunday morning, the job was waiting for the pubs to open. Nobody in our street ever did much else of a Sunday. I suppose you don't happen to have ever been down the Falcon Road of a Sunday morning, Parson? No?
The last time Selina went for him tooth and nail; smashed all the plates off the dresser throwing 'em at him, and ended by chasing of him up the road in his shirt-sleeves." The captain grunted. "That was two years ago," continued Mr. Tasker; "and his spirit's quite broke. He 'as to give all his money except a shilling a week to his wife, and he's not allowed to go into pubs.
Then is a chance of getting regular dock work, and that is, to lounge about the pubs where the foremen go, and treat them. Then they will very likely take you on next day." R. P. was a non-Unionist. Henry F. is a Unionist. His history is much the same. "I worked at St. Katherine's Docks five months ago. You have to get to the gates at 6 o'clock for the first call.
As night fell fires were lit within the stockade. A slaughtered bullock lay on its skin, near the smithy, and from this the rebels who remained on Eureka cut steaks, and they cooked their own rough meal. It was Saturday, and a number of the diggers left the encampment to participate in the gaieties peculiar to the evening in the Main Road dancing-booths and in the pubs and shanty bars.
That the glamour of his birth and condescension to their plane had aught to do with the dazzling quality of his charm, they might have admitted had their minds been driven by the enemy into the regions of self-analysis, but in any case he was the theme of two-thirds of the "pubs" and reading-rooms in England.
And there was no sogn o' John. I lookit a' ower, and he wisna in the hoose. Richt then I knew what had happened. I went to the kist where I kep' the siller for the rent. Not a bawbee left! He'll be spendin' it in the pubs this meenit I'm talkie' to ye, and we'll no see him till he hasna a penny left to his name. So there's what I think of yer Harry Lauder.
They live in Manners Road. 'Why, what's amiss with the girl? asked Fanny sharply. 'She was all right when I knew her. 'Ay she's all right. But she's always in an' out o' th' pubs, wi' th' fellows, said Harry. 'A nice thing! said Fanny. Harry glanced towards the door. He wanted to get out. 'Most distressing, indeed! The minister slowly shook his head. 'What about tonight, Mr.
In London, pubs are like that, and some dentists' establishments and law offices musty, fusty dens very unlike their Yankee counterparts.
"We can't go into pubs without drinkin' in the ordinary way," said the cook, "so we're goin' in to sell bootlaces, like the chap in the book did. Now do you see?" "Why not try something cheaper first?" growled Sam "measurin' footmarks, or over-'earing fellers talking? It's just like you, cookie, doin' expensive things."
They're the cause of ninety per cent. of the drunkenness in our army, and more than that, I want to give you another bit of information that came out at our M. O. conference this week, namely that these pubs account for ninety per cent. of our tent hospital cases." "Ninety per cent., doctor? That's surely high."
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