Most of them are regular customers at the prisonsuch is the idiotic state of the lawwho come into the reception-room like travellers entering a familiar hostelry, address the prison officers by name and demand the usual privileges and extra comfortsthe 'drunks,' for instance, generally ask for a dose of bromide to steady their nerves and a light in the cell to keep away the horrors.

"They've found a keg of rum which was in my quarters," remarked Brightson; "now they'll get crazy drunk.

To comfort the stomach and inner parts against wind and obstructions, by Areteus, Galen, Aetius, Aurelianus, &c., and many latter writers, are still prescribed the decoctions of wormwood, centaury, pennyroyal, betony sodden in whey, and daily drunk: many have been cured by this medicine alone.

Most of them are regular customers at the prisonsuch is the idiotic state of the lawwho come into the reception-room like travellers entering a familiar hostelry, address the prison officers by name and demand the usual privileges and extra comfortsthe 'drunks,' for instance, generally ask for a dose of bromide to steady their nerves and a light in the cell to keep away the horrors.

Oh, then I am going out on one glorious drunk!"

Then there was an Italian peddler, alien, confused, and in rags, soon, however, to be set free; and next a jovial drunk, slapping the officers on the back, lifting his legs in dance-like motions and shouting to the judge.

"Quiet down, you, mister, or you'll get yourself put in the cooler that's the best place for noisy drunks.

One evening Joe Traill, who had been given a situation, came into the night school staggering drunk, and made a commotion, and though Joshua quieted him, after being struck by him, the police, attracted by the tumult, came up into the room and marched Joshua and myself off to the police station, where we were locked up for the night.