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Updated: June 22, 2025
'Never saw him the worse o' liquor in all my life. And the old farmer, as he gave this grand assurance, rattled his fist down upon the table. 'It ony just makes him stoopider and stoopider the more he swills. You can't tell me, grandfather, about John Crumb, I knows him. 'Didn't ye say as how ye'd have him? Didn't ye give him a promise?
"Oh, Yes," said Little Silver to herself, as she remembered how her father had said of a certain neighbor who had lately been drinking hard, "he swills saké like a Shōji." She also understood why picnic or "chow-chow" boxes were often decorated with pictures of Shōji, with their cups and dippers.
"Nickie, fer th' love iv 'Eaven let er man sleep," pleaded the Living Skeleton pitifully. "I was just a-dreamin' iv pickled pigs' feet an' fried taters crisp, brown, fried taters. Oh, Lord!" "Be quiet!" snarled the Missing Link, "and do a perish here from thirst while that cow of a man swills his fill and makes a fortune out of my mortal agony? No, hanged if I do."
Squatting about with their dirty face-rags, and a half-pint of greasy water in their brass receptacle shaped like the soup-plate of civilization, and leaving upon their necks the traces of their swills, they wiped the dirt into their hair, and considered they had washed themselves.
"You're a young idiot, that's what you are!" exclaimed Bramble in a rage. "What business have you got at the meeting? Turn him out!" "I'll turn you out!" replied the undaunted Stephen; "I've as much right here as you have. So there!" "Turn him out, can't you?" roared Bramble. "Bah! who goes and swills ginger-beer down in a public-house in the town, eh?"
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