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Updated: June 22, 2025

I've swilled enough water to float a battleship; and, look here! you must give me some beer: a bottle two bottles a gallon a cask! Beer I will have if I perish like a beast in the field. I can't drink water like that-it's as hot as " Morrison, the Scotch engineer, smiled. "Don't swear, Carr. Ye shall have just one long drink of beer. 'Twill do ye no great harm on such a roasting day as this."

Louis Becke - Tessa: 1901