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Captain Friend was appointed chief District Constable at Launceston; all the constables under him were prisoners of the Crown, receiving half a dollar a day. He was afterwards Collector of Customs at the Mersey. In November, 1835 the schooner 'Elizabeth' returned to Launceston with 270 tuns of oil. The share of the crew of a whaling vessel was one-fiftieth of the value of the oil and bone.
Not that I care a fig for gaudy show, dear boy But juveniles must look well, don't you know, dear boy. And shall I lordly hall and tuns of claret own? And may I murmur love in dulcet baritone? Tell me at least, this simple fact of it Can I beat Terriss hollow in one act of it? Pooh for Wenman's bass! Why should he make a boast of it?" He was a valuable actor, yet somehow never interesting.
At noon, the whole Office Brouncker, J. Minnes, T. Middleton, Samuel Pepys, and Captain Cox to dine with the Parish, at the Three Tuns, this day being Ascension-day, where exceeding good discourse among the merchants, and thence back home, and after a little talk with my wife, to my office did a great deal of business, and so with my eyes might weary, and my head full of care how to get my accounts and business settled against my journey, home to supper, and bed.
At every corner of the street, under rustling abeles and thick-foliaged planes, at the doors of palaces and in the yards of inns, men, naked from the thighs downward, are treading the red must into vats and tuns; while their mild-eyed oxen lie beneath them in the road, peaceably chewing the cud between one journey to the vineyard and another.
"But then that means that there is something more than my offending you in not liking The Three Tuns. If it is because I did not like to let you kiss me in the Abbey well, you know, Giles, that it was not on account of my cold feelings, but because I did certainly, just then, think it was rather premature, in spite of my poor father. That was the true reason the sole one.
Of wine of various vintages there were upwards of 12 pipes, and of ale and beer, thirty tuns, including four of London and six of Kentish ale. The narratives which have descended to us of the prodigious banquets given on special occasions by our early kings, prelates and nobles, are apt to inspire the general reader with an admiration of the splendid hospitality of bygone times.
We're one as fickle as the other, so where's the harm? 'Ah, my dear fellow, you did make a mistake, he ran on. 'I suppose you forget Robert Louis' advice "Times are changed with him who marries," etc. 'He's married himself, I replied. 'And I suppose you never drop in for a pipe at "The Three Tuns" now of an evening? 'No! I haven't been near the place these many years. 'Poor old fellow!
No wonder the young ladies thought him very odd, but they liked him all the better for that; and as he had received at his birth the name of Desire, they all called him d'Amour Desire. 'What is the matter with you? his father often said to him. 'You have everything you can possibly wish for: a good bed, good food, and tuns full of beer.
Bunner concluded sadly, "they got him when I wasn't around. Well, gentlemen, you must excuse me. I am going in to Bishopsbridge. There is a lot to do these days, and I have to send off a bunch of cables big enough to choke a cow." "I must be off, too," said Trent. "I have an appointment at the Three Tuns inn." "Let me give you a lift in the automobile," said Mr. Bunner cordially.
The appearance of a menacing force, and the threat of the torch, soon brought the refractory burgesses to terms. On such an occasion Dundalk paid Owen O'Neil the sum of 60 marks and two tuns of wine to avert his indignation. On another, the townsmen of Limerick agreed about the same period to pay annually for ever to O'Brien the sum of 60 marks.
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