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Updated: June 23, 2025
Should a man go to drink there he sees no snakes, but no sooner has he drunk some of the water than he sees hundreds; so even water-drinkers see their snakes. The name of the hole is Dahn. Spirit-babies are usually despatched to Waddahgudjaelwon and sent by her to hang promiscuously on trees, until some woman passes under where they are, then they will seize a mother and be incarnated.
Before the vines a little further down the valley were destroyed by the phylloxera and mildew, the people were much better off. Then there was plenty of wine in the cellars, but now St. Bazile was a village of water-drinkers. He spoke of the neighbouring parish of Servieres, where, at the annual pilgrimage, women go barefoot from one rock to the other on which the chapel stands.
Pity, profound pity, is his due, and especially if he happen to possess a nervous, emotional organisation. If we want to make men water-drinkers, we must first of all awaken in them a capacity for being tempted by delights which water-drinking intensifies. The mere preaching of self-denial will do little or no good.
Again, though the advantages of temperance are continually preached to working men, beer remains the national beverage; yet even those of us who would rather see the working classes sober and self-restrained than water-drinkers by Act of Parliament or solemn pledge, acknowledge how good it is that the preaching of temperance was begun.
I have just made a discovery, that this place as full of idlers and water-drinkers as their Highnesses of Orange and Hesse Darmstadt can desire; for to them accrue all the profits of its salubrious fountains. I protest, I knew nothing of all this yesterday, so entirely was I taken up with the rocks and meadows; no chance of meeting either card or billiard players in their solitudes.
What perfectly renders the temper calm; honor or enticing lucre, or a secret passage and the path of an unnoticed life? He shows the folly of some persons who would imitate; and the envy of others who would censure him. O learned Maecenas, if you believe old Gratinus, no verses which are written by water-drinkers can please, or be long-lived.
They cautiously shrank back behind the screen of the bed-curtains out of his sight. "Juniper, my boy!" exclaimed the wretched sufferer, "where's my mother? Gone down to the rectory! Ah, they're water-drinkers there. That don't do for you and me, Juniper. `This bottle's the sun of our table. Ha, ha! a capital song that!" Lady Oldfield sank on her knees, and could not repress her sobs.
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