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When Phelim's prior engagements are considered, it must be admitted that there was something singularly ludicrous in the humorous look he gave over his shoulder at the company, as he went toward the bin, having the bottom of the whiskey-bottle projecting behind his elbow, winking at them in return, by way of a hint to mind their own business and allow him to plead for himself.
The young man, without turning away from his discontented, peevish brooding over the fire, vaguely reached backward for the whiskey-bottle and Uncle Billy's tin cup, to which he was assisted by the latter's hospitable hand. But on setting down the cup his eye caught sight of the pill-box. "Wot's that?" he said, with gloomy scorn. "Rat poison?" "Quinine pills agin ager," said Uncle Jim.
We kept it in a whiskey-bottle; and as whiskey itself was absolutely prohibited among us, it was amusing to see the surprise of our military visitors when this innocent substitute was brought in. They usually liked it in the end, but, like the old Frenchwoman over her glass of water, wished that it were a sin to give it a relish.
Same thing you know." Sandy shoved out whiskey-bottle and glass. Then he turned grave eyes to Lee. "One of these fellers can tend bar while we talk if you want, Bud," he offered. "You say Quinnion has been talking?" asked Lee. "Yes. Considerable. All afternoon an' evening, I guess. I didn't hear him until I called you up."
"The coffin stranger, you mean," said another. Busted Blake lurched over to the bar. His eyes met those of P. Gibbs on the other side, and the latter reached for a whiskey-bottle. Blake fumbled in his pocket and brought forth a piece of soiled paper, which he laid on the bar under the glance of P. Gibbs. "Keep that!" said Blake, in a husky voice, whose service he compelled with much effort.
For the great part of his career the dominie had not made forty pounds a year, but he "died worth" about three hundred pounds. The moral of his life came in just as he was leaving it, for he rose from his death-bed to hide a whiskey-bottle from his wife. The children used to fling stones at Grinder Queery because he loved his mother. I never heard the Grinder's real name.
I made Redpath light a fire, and in the meantime I gave the man a dram from our whiskey-bottle, which greatly revived him.
As the lancer came up, I dropped my sword from my right hand, and hurled the portmanteau at his head, with aim so true, that he fell back on his saddle like a sack, and thus when the horse galloped up to me, I had no difficulty in dismounting the rider: the whiskey-bottle struck him over his right eye, and he was completely stunned.
The whiskey-bottle was considered one of the indispensables of every log cabin which made any pretences to gentility. The boat, moored near the shore, was loaded with whiskey, flour, sugar, hardware, and other articles, valuable in the Indian trade in the purchase of furs, and in great demand in the huts of pioneers.
Inside this triangular shelter the idea of which was probably borrowed from the Indians the Pine Rat ensconces himself with his whiskey-bottle at night, crouching in dread of the darkness, or of Leeds's devil, aforesaid.
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