spirit-selling

Updated: June 24, 2025

Buckley had gone to bed, Sam sang a song, and Desborough told a story, about a gamekeeper of his uncle's, whom the old gentleman desired to start in an independent way of business. So he built him a new house, and gave him a keg of whisky, to start in the spirit-selling line.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn