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For 'deed he fearna God nor man, ony mair nor the jeedge i' the Scriptur'. He drank a heap as for a' body at he ca'd upo' aye hed oot the whisky-bottle well willun' to please the man they war feart at."
At intervals, when the gloom deepened toward despair, Morris would produce the whisky-bottle, and at first John welcomed the diversion not for long. The approach of dusk, feebly combated with a single tallow candle, added a touch of tragedy; and John suddenly stopped whistling through his fingers an art to the practice of which he had been reduced and bitterly lamented his concessions.
An' I'm always figgerin' it's about time for my luck to git over her vacation an' come back to work. How much did you drop, Bart?" "Forty bucks," returned Bart, reaching for the whisky-bottle. "Which same forty was all I had. Here's how." "How," repeated his companion. "I'm laying you a bet," said Conniston, quietly, coming toward them from the table.
"I might be up in this garret and nobody would care for me, or mind whether I was alive or dead." "What! not the General, Mr. Bows?" Warrington asked. "The General likes his whisky-bottle more than anything in life," the other answered; "we live together from habit and convenience; and he cares for me no more than you do. What is it you want to ask me, Mr. Warrington?
One day one of them stuck an open whisky-bottle under his nose, saying, “Smell it, Bill; ain’t it a fine odor?” Bill stepped back, all smiles, and said quietly, “Well, Tom, drink was my master a long time, but I have a better Master now.” He went on his way unobstrusively but steadily, and finally won the respect and confidence of all. At last the end came; Old Bill was dead.
Then she daintily removed Costigan's dinner things, tripping about the room as she had seen the dancers do at the play; and she danced to the Captain's cupboard, and produced his whisky-bottle, and mixed him a tumbler, and must taste a drop of it a little drop; and the Captain must sing her one of his songs, his dear songs, and teach it to her.
With some classes of society, it is as much a matter of duty to drink hard on New-year's Day as to go to church on Sunday. Some have been saving their wages for perhaps a month to do the season honour. Many carry a whisky-bottle in their pocket, which they will press with embarrassing effusion on a perfect stranger.
"Aw wight," said Toddie; and he immediately started the old air himself, with the words, "There liezh the whisky-bottle, empty on the sheff," but was suddenly brought to order by a shake from his aunt, while his uncle danced about the front parlor in an ecstasy not directly traceable to toothache. "That's not a Sunday song either, Toddie," said Mrs. Burton. "The words are real rowdyish.
He pointed through the window opening into space that was filled with moonlight reflected from the snow and threw out an empty whisky-bottle. 'No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end, he said, and went out. The lama looked forth, a hand on either sill, with eyes that shone like yellow opals. From the enormous pit before him white peaks lifted themselves yearning to the moonlight.
"Then I should think you'd better go to bed," answered Mr. Sheldon the younger, who had smoked a couple of cigars, and consumed the contents of the whisky-bottle; "so I'll take myself off. I told you how uncommonly seedy you were looking when I first came in. When do you expect Tom and his wife?" "At the beginning of next week." "So soon!
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