When they returned with him one glance was sufficient to show me that the Short 'Un was in a decidedly inebriated condition.

And the evening service at Whortley churchat the evening service surplices were wornthe chanting and singing, the vague brilliance of the numerous candle flames, the multitudinous unanimity of the congregation down there, kneeling, rising, thunderously responding, invariably inebriated him.

"Big Joe," six feet, five, a tower of muscled brawn, standing on a corner, pleasantly inebriated, had watched go feebly by the tottering, palsied form of little old Bolivar Kent, our most aged and richest man.