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Updated: June 23, 2025
"So as you are here at last, come in and have a drink, for whether you are men or devils, you must be cold out there in the damp." In they came accordingly, and, not being Mohammedans, partook of a tot of square-face from a bottle which I kept locked in a box to put Hans beyond the reach of temptation.
"Well, I'd like to go with you, boss, but I couldn't chuck 'em over not rightly I couldn't." He stroked his beard and relapsed into thought. "Let's go in and get a drink," said Hugh. "I suppose there is some square-face inside." The square-face settled it. They had one drink, and the stranger began to think less of the needs of the Oriental.
And by the time the square-face had made a second round, Tom's fancy had flown higher than a yellow-back novel, Old Dibs being dead, blessing me with his last breath and making me the heir of all his riches!
"Did you find your messengers, Mr. Meyer?" she asked, when the men had lit their pipes, and the square-face as Hollands was called in those days, from the shape of the bottle was set upon the rough table of speckled buchenhout wood. "Yes, I found them," he answered; "they are in the kitchen now." And he looked at Mr. Clifford.
Sometimes there were fights down by the docks; strangers got arrested and were mysteriously pardoned out; there were always a good many people in the landscape who had had too much square-face. We were very far away from everything, and in spite of all these drawbacks we were happy, because the climate was, most of the year, unexceptionable.
How often have you not flogged me when I should have been flogged for being drunk and other things yes, even when once I stole some of your powder and sold it to buy square-face gin, though it is true I knew it was bad powder, not fit for you to use? Did I thank you then overmuch?
"Small blame to you," I said, adding: "Hans, give me some square-face neat." For I felt as queer as though I also had been in that cave with its guardian. "There is very little more to tell," went on Ragnall after I had drunk the hollands.
Would Horble have the grit to order him off the ship? No; the infernal coward was getting out the gin a bottle of square-face and two glasses. "Say when," said Horble. "When," said Gregory. Horble tipped the bottle into his own glass. A second mate's grog! One could see what the fellow drank. "Here's luck," said Gregory. "Drink hearty," said Horble.
His grandfather was old Benjamin Kersdale, a Yankee trader, who got his start for a million in the old days by selling cheap whiskey and square-face gin. There's another queer thing. The old missionaries and old traders were mortal enemies. You see, their interests conflicted. But their children made it up by intermarrying and dividing the island between them. Life in Hawaii is a song.
The canvas flap from the waggon was arranged as a tent for Benita, the men sleeping beneath a thick-leaved tree near by. Close at hand, under another tree, was their cooking place. The provisions of all sorts, including a couple of cases of square-face and a large supply of biltong from the slaughtered cattle, they stored with a quantity of ammunition in the mouth of the cave.
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