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Updated: June 17, 2025
As for the whiskey-barrel, that was rolled down here about a month ago, and sold for half a dollar's worth of liquor, and here I now stand upon it, and make it the foundation of a temperance speech.
Of course I had to go to bed, and didn't get fairly over it for two or three days. Now, wasn't that too bad, Mr. Malcom! "'Indeed it was, Mrs. Bradly, I said in reply. "'It was a capital joke, though, wasn't it? rejoined her husband, laughing immoderately. "'I'll tell you a good way to retort on him, I said, jestingly. "'How is that, Mr. Malcom? "Pull the tap out of his whiskey-barrel.
"'Ah, Malcom good day How are you? he said, reeling up to me and offering his hand. 'You havn't tried that good old rye of mine yet. Come along now, it's most gone. "'You must excuse me today, Mr. Bradly, I replied, trying to pass on. "But he said I should not get off this time that home with him I must go, and take a dram from his whiskey-barrel. Of course, I did not go.
"How did I insult Harry Arnold?" "By telling about that confounded whiskey-barrel that I have wished a hundred times had been in the bottom of the sea, before it ever fell into my hands." "I told the truth, didn't I?" "O yes it was all true enough, and a great deal too true." "He owed you a bill?" "Yes." "And you wanted your money?" "Yes." "But Harry wouldn't pay you in anything but whiskey?"
"You all see this poor creature here, and his wife and children well, as my text and his fall from happiness and respectability are inseparably united, I will, instead of giving you a dry discourse on an empty whiskey-barrel, narrate this man's history, which involves the whiskey-barrel, and describes how it became empty, and finally how it came here.
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