Then the cached fire-water would be diminished by a keg or two.

If I'd stuck to the fire-eating and not drinking fire-water I'd be somewhere to-day.

False friends and fire-water" "See me later," said Joe, with a friendly wave of his hand.

"This playing with fire by a man who can't keep away from fire-water, is risky.

"And let the fire-water alone!" demanded Joe.

They were described to me by one of the residents as a dissipated set of fellows, who squandered all they got in "fire-water," as they term ardent spirits, and when inebriated are so quarrelsome that it is dangerous in the highest degree to irritate them.

Then came the Dutch, and gave my people the fire-water.

The fact that we agreed to pay in advance unheard-of wages, ten times the usual amount earned by laborers in this vicinity, that we added offers of the precious coca leaves, the greatly-to-be-desired "fire-water," the rarely seen tobacco, and other good things usually coveted by Peruvian highlanders, had no effect in the face of the terrors of the mountain.

How is it with the man on his fire-water mission to the Indian?

No wonder that men become fiends incarnate on such "fire-water" as that!

If to the same element of aubo, the word for fire, iscoda, be prefixed, the result is their name for ardent spirits, iscodawabo, literally fire-water.

"Ugh! fire-water for Black Hawk!big Injun

No roads were made, and the citizens pursued their way by trees, stripped of little pieces of bark, by friendly Indians, who went as guides to the pale faces, that had come into their territories, purchased their lands, and distributed the deadly fire-water among them, thus adding fury to their already ferocious natures.

She never drank the fire-water, and used to trade with the pale faces, as she was so gentle in her manners that she easily won her way into their houses and hearts.

"But," added she, "Sousup drink fire-water and git much drunk; me feel bad, but

Senegalese and Turcos with rolling eyes and wreathed smiles sat at the tables in the Café de la Paix, paying extravagantly for their fire-water, and exalted by this luxury of life after the muddy hell of the trenches and the humid climate which made them cough consumptively between their gusts of laughter.

XI. FIRE-WATER BECOMES MASTER.

Often, after their hunts, they had met with traders, and exchanged the skins they had taken for such articles as the white man had to giveguns, blankets, knives, powder, pipes, and fire-water; but this was the grand trading excursion of the year.

The Indians had decided to hold a revel, in which nearly all the men were to drink fire-water until they could take no more.

"No, no!" replied the king; "my friend Alvez's brandy, and for each drop of his fire-water I shall give him" "A drop of blood from a white man!"

"Yes," replied the trader, "fire-water, and you will see that it well merits that name!

Moini Loungga began to find that fire-water did not sufficiently justify its name.

The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids; deeper in the wood, some red men were growing frantic around a keg of the fire-water; and elsewhere a Jesuit preached the faith of high cathedrals beneath a canopy of forest boughs.

Beetle-browed, mop-haired men, whose faces, if tapped, would apparently give forth as much fire-water as a rum barrel.

" It brought a laugh, a deep, good-natured laugh, and then a chorus of mockery; but Barry stepped unconfused to the bar, accepted the glass of lemonade, and when the others downed their fire-water, he sipped his drink thoughtfully.