"Ye're a jewel, ye be, ould Nick, or young Nick!" cried Mike, in an ecstasy of friendship, just after he had completed his first half-pint.

At breakfast, Dr. Johnson told us, 'there was once a pretty good tavern in Catherine-street in the Strand, where very good company met in an evening, and each man called for his own half-pint of wine, or gill, if he pleased; they were frugal men, and nobody paid but for what he himself drank.

A man called Carroll thereupon produced a half-pint of whiskey, and they all drank to the soul of the departed.

So long." FRIENDS IN NEED R. Joseph Gibbs finished his half-pint in the private bar of the Red Lion with the slowness of a man unable to see where the next was coming from, and, placing the mug on the counter, filled his pipe from a small paper of tobacco and shook his head slowly at his companions.

He had left his broom for a hurried half-pint at the "Bull's Head"left it leaning in a negligent attitude against the warehouse-wall; now, lashed to the top of the crane at the jetty end, it pointed its soiled bristles towards the evening sky and defied capture.

" Also he lampooned them under the style of Avidieu and Avidieu's wife, who "Sell their presented partridges or fruits, And humbly live on rabbits and on roots; One half-pint bottle serves them both to dine, And is at once their vinegar and wine.

Other people regarded the affair as a joke, and he sat gazing round-eyed one evening at the Two Schooners at the insensible figures of three men who had each had a modest half-pint at his expense.

Don't be frightened for your spirit-bottle, I can drink water; I've done it many a time, for a week together, in the prairies, and been thankful for a half-pint in the day.

And this booty still remaineda half-pint of ground-nuts piled carefully in a little hollow lined with moss.

A half-pint of wine for young men in perfect health is enough, and you will be able to take your exercise better, and feel better for this abstinence.

Yet the compounds half-pint and half-penny are sometimes used to signify, the quantity of half a pint, the value of half a penny.

ANDERSON, PAUL L. Half-pint Shannon.

Rosalea S. Fox (W); 7Oct66; R395521. Half-pint Nighthawk.

The Half-pint jinni and other stories.

ANDERSON, PAUL L. Half-pint Shannon.

Rosalea S. Fox (W); 7Oct66; R395521. Half-pint Nighthawk.

The Half-pint jinni and other stories.

No more miracles, everything as it wasme back in the Long Dragon just before I drank my half-pint.

For measuring the material, particularly the liquid and the yeast, half-pint cups, divided by marks into thirds and fourths, as shown in the cut, are especially serviceable.

GRAHAM SALT-RISING BREAD.Put two tablespoonfuls of milk into a half-pint cup, add boiling water to fill the cup half full, one half teaspoonful of sugar, one fourth teaspoonful of salt, and white flour to make a rather stiff batter.

MACARONI WITH RAISINS.Break macaroni into inch lengths sufficient to fill a half-pint cup.

At the same time from the glass he held there spilled on his Lordship's brocaded coat of blue and silver a good half-pint of wine.

Use the half-pint measuring cup.

FLOAT Take a half-pint glass of red raspberry or currant juice and mix it with a quarter cup of sugar.

The cup should be the regulation half-pint cup.