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When the puncheon was turned up it revealed a pit beneath, from which she lifted a large jug of whisky. She poured some out in a tin cup and handed it to Shorty. "Take a big swig," she said; "hit's mouty good stuff ole Jeff Thompson's brewin' from yaller corn raised on rich bottom land." Si trembled as he saw his partner take the cup. Shorty smelled it appreciatively.
For the next hour all were busy, and between them placed Splinter in irons, and crowded the mutineers, a cowed lot, into the forward hold. They found Stubbs still unconscious, but he came around after a good swig of brandy. He rose to his elbow and blinked dazedly at Danbury. "What's the trouble?" he demanded. "Mutiny," answered Danbury, briefly. "And me laid up, an' outer it.
"Half the trouble is the stupidity of the whites," said Roberts, pausing to take a swig from his glass and to curse the Samoan bar-boy in affectionate terms. "If the white man would lay himself out a bit to understand the workings of the black man's mind, most of the messes would be avoided."
"Ain't you feeling well, honey? Let me fix you an egg?" "A little swig, Teenie a little one, is all I ask." "No, no please, Jastrow; don't begin just as I had you forgetting." "It does me good, I tell you. I know my constitution better than a quack country boob does. I'm a freak, I am a prize concession that has to be treated special. Since that last swig, I tell you, I been a different man.
There I stopped again and took what I called "a good lifter." It burnt a little but I went on again till I came to the creek, then I called father who answered. I felt so wonderfully good that I thought I'd take one more drink before he came in sight. So I took what I called "a good swig." When father came he said they had found plenty of good grass and he wished me to go and see it.
Each had his pile of bills and silver laid out on the pavement, and his bottle of "white lightnin';" now and then one would take a swig, and now and then one would start singing: All we do is sign the pay-roll And we don't get a goddam cent.
The light fell warm and mellow on the various kinds of liquor, that were so arranged as to be most tempting to the thirsty souls frequenting the place. Stepping up to the bulky man behind the bar the landlord said: "There, Mr. Swig, is a young man who will fill capitally the place of the chap we dismissed to-day for getting tight. You may bet your life from his face that he don't drink.
You wouldn't believe it, but she can swig upon a rope too: and as for pulling an oar " He went on to tell me that she had been rowing a pair of paddles when his eye first lit on her: and I gathered that the courtship had been conducted on these waters under the gaze of Saltash, the male in one boat pursuing, the female eluding him in another, for long indomitable, but at length gracefully surrendering.
The Tories had brought a jug with them, and they were so pleased with Aunt Nancy's seeming friendliness that they invited her to drink with them. "I'll take one swig with you," said Aunt Nancy, "if it kills every cow on the Island," meaning a neck of land at the junction of river and creek where the Whig families of the neighborhood pastured their cattle and hid them.
'Now is just the time to look out for sudden heart failure, so you must keep still, and have a good swig of this stuff, and try and have a nap. You've given us a proper scare, I can tell you, but now you're right side up.
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