"
"That most undoubtedly we shall," said Frank, "for it's past eight now,
and the deuce a mouthful have we put into our heads since twelve."
"Barrin' the liquor, Frank! barrin' the liquor--now don't lie! don't
lie, boy, so ridic'lous--as if I'd known you these six years, and then
was a goin' to believe as you'd not drinked since noon!"
"Why, you old hogshead, you! who wants you to believe anything of the
kind--we had one drink at Tom's, your cousin's, when we started, but
deuce the drop since."
"That's just the reason why you're so snarlish, then, I reckon! Your
coppers is got bilin', leastwise if they beant all biled out--you'd best
drink stret away, I guess, afore the bottom of the biler gits left bare
--for if it does, and it's red hot now, boy, you'll be a blowin' up,
like an old steamboat, when you pumps in fresh water."
"Well, Tom," said Archer, "I do not think it would be a bad move to take
a drop of something, and a cracker; for I suppose we shall not get
supper much short of two hours; and I'm so deuced hungry, that if I
don't get something just to take off the edge, I shall not be able to
eat when it does come!"
"I'll make a pitcher of egg nog; A--- drinks egg nog, I guess, although
he's the poorest drinkin' man I ever did see.
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