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he other half. Possibly it takes two-thirds of the entire population to make beer enough for the oth

itable "public," or the "pub" as they say between drinks, stares you in the face. And on the streets almost every other

ne of the glass and mahogany palaces of New York, you see none of the flashy bars with plate glass,

quor, and therefore, every place devoted to the sale or handling of the stuff, assumes as much of a Methuselean appearance as possible. You are to have a party of friends at your lodgings, we will say. You must have at least

as a laundried shirt, but not so here. They are sent with dust on them, and with cobwebs on them, and to brush off the dus

as it expensive to keep spiders? The man actually resented it-was angry about it. Singular how sensitive the Islanders can be about trifles like that! To keep spiders for the

e of the liquor he prefers, and the drouthy man helps himself to such quantity as he deems sufficient for the purpose desired. If he is fixing himself for a common riot, he takes a certain quantity; if for a murder, more or le

three penn'orth, four penn'orth or six penn'orth. It is measur

tor as to the absurdity of the

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The astonished customer was invited to help himself, after the American custom. He was an astonished Briton, but he managed to express his gratification at the

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liquor to the British public. Two such customers on the

and it is so cheap there that it doubtless approximates to purity. The whiskies drank are entirely Scotch and Irish, the English making none whatever. Wines are consumed in great quantities, and there is no question a

lightning-chain lightning-which goes crashing through the system, breaking down and destroying every pulsation towards anything good. The gin-well, their gin is the very acme, the absolu

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small but intensely dirty shawl, with stockingless feet, and shoes down at the heel, with eyes rheumy and watery, that twinkle with gin light out from the obscurity of gin-swelled flesh, with a face on whic

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ce a fair young girl, and had a mother who loved her, and it is equally difficult to comprehend how any power, even that of Nature, coul

oes not stand at the bars in the best streets to offend the eyes of decent people.

booze. Drunkenness is not the result either of conviviality or desperation as it

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," quoth the kindly dame, "why don't you help him?" "Sick, is he," replied cabby, "sick! don't I vish I 'ad just 'arf of vot ails him?" The cabby spoke the honest sentiment of his heart. The Londoner of his class loves it

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r know it, for alcohol is a sure cure for reptilian poison, but the poor snake would wriggle faintly away to some secluded spot and die sadly. This is why, I presume,

. He walked into a bar, and distrusting the quality of the whisky, called up a negro and gave him a glass before drinking his own. The landlord, divining his purpose,

ing the day his "drains" of brandy are very frequent. The gentry and nobility drink more costly wines and better brandy, but liquor is everywhere. Nothing is done without the accompanying drink; it is universal and i

ver the one designated as "the private bar," you get precisely the same liquors as at the others, but you pay more for it, because laborers and the lik

retty is a part of her qualifications. As her feet cannot be seen, owing to her standing behind the bar, she is generally pretty. Then they are required to dress well, and all i

ndelicate, and there isn't a cabman in the city who is so much a master of chaff as they are. They will wink and leer at you in the most free way possible, they will talk to the very verge of indelicac

iently prompt, the warning eye of the landlord or landlady intimates that she has wasted enough time upon him, and she simply asks him, when he has ordered a drink for himself, if he won't treat her, and he always does. Per consequence by eleven at

husband. When a woman does unsex herself, she can give a man points in wickedness that he never dreamed of. These wives are as eager to have liquor paid for f

ish young man prefers blonde hair to any other, the landladies are mostly of that persuasion. If they were

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woman, but of the respectability. It is nothing singular to see women, respectable women, sitting in bars with

were filled with the populace, women and children being largely in the majority; and there was never a woman, no matter if she had a child at the breast, wh

eived the brilliant idea of starting a bar with the addition of the American free lunch, with which to attract trade. It did attract altogether too much. In twenty minutes the lunch, which

But the British public knows this is a sham, and resents it by never buying any comestibles at the counter. The British publi

e, cakes and buns. Sometimes at railway stations a hungry Briton buys and partakes of these things, but not often, a

can be cut so thin, especially bread, is one of the mysteries that never will be solved till I penetrate a public kitchen and see the operation. It is an art I suppose, and the professor of it gets, I presume, a very high salary. He ought to. The bread is stringy enough and the meat tough eno

p in the morning feeling as though I had swallowed the plaster bust of the infant Samuel at prayer that stood on my mantel. The pie is a trifle worse than the sandwich. The cheese cake may be dismissed with the simple remark that it is a trifle worse than the meat pie. The bun is a stand-off as to the others. Altogether they make

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and they all do, takes either brandy or Scotch or Irish whisky, raw from a barrel, and swallows his portion and walks away satisfied. One woman in a famous drinking place was taught by an American to make cock-tails, and the fame of the

xciting. There is not the exhilaration in the atmosphere that there is in America, and the moist humidity that you exist in is very favorable to the consumption of alco

de of it, is much higher and the quality is vile. A decent cigar, or one counted decent

price of tobacco, pipes and cigarettes are very generally used. The Englishman of the better class smokes his pipe upon the street, the same as an American does his cigar. He p

appreciate the privileges they have at home. Hartford, Connecticut, is, I believe, a paradise to those who live there. One old lady who was born and had always lived in Hartford, came to die-a

e said, professionally, "th

r answer; "I o

content wit

o doubt a very nice place, but I shal

re English law they would greatly miss their American privileges. While you can get all the drink you

big or little, is closed, and this law is not evaded, for the risk is too gr

cannot go and rent a room and open your bar; you are compelled to buy the lease of a place which carries the license with it. Consequently a licensed place is a valuable piece of property. One at the corner of St. Martin's street and Orange, a dingy building in a dingy neighborhood, was bought by an American

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nd they are closed. There are no side-doors, as in New York-there is no selling on the sly-they are closed. The only exception is at the railroad stations. The refreshment bars there are permitted to be kept open as long as trains arrive or depart, for the British Government recognizes the necessity of an Englishman having his grog till the prescribed hour for his getting into his bed. The th

and the proprietors have notified him that his renewal will cost him just five times that sum. He told me that he should not renew, but that he would gladly

tes. They take them into the publics, and pay for their drinks, all of which the landlord not only approves of but encourages. And the English prostitute can drink as heartily and just as long as any man alive. She has just as drouthy a system, and it t

rrying capacity of continuing to drink every minute as long as anybody will pay for it, and as there is an equal number of men prowlin

house to be open a minute after the hour, a policeman would walk in and close it for him, and the next day the nearest magistrate would revoke his

names they palm off as American are very funny to an American, because they are never heard of over t

" "Maiden's Blush," "Bosom-caresser," "Corps

d by Englishmen to be genuinely Amer

too small quantities to be satisfactory to an American, who is accustomed to taking his drinks ice cold. The frozen reminiscence of Winter is rather expensive here, and, besi

when the amount is considered, your three pence buys about the same as twelve and one-half cents in New York. Malt liquors are about the sam

seem, drinks better English ale than the Englishman does. The ale made here for home consumption is

e an inconceivable amount of wear and tear of feelin