" Oh, lovers of your lager beer, Drinkers of wine and ale, Ye editors and ministers, Come listen to my tale, And learn the very slight basis Characters are built on, By reading of the fight between FULTON and friend TILTON.

Nick was a water drinker by preference and because he was an open-air man, also because it had been necessary for him to set an example; but to-night Carmen made him sip a little iced champagne, and she drank to the success of his first visit East since boyhoodto his safe and speedy home-coming.

Next to the stomach the liver is an early and late sufferer, and this is especially the case with hard drinkers, and even more moderate drinkers in hot climates.

It is expected, my lords, by those who purchase spirits from the distillers, that they should be of a certain degree of strength, which they call proof: if they are of a lower degree, their price is diminished; and if of a higher, it is raised proportionally; because if the spirits exceed the degree of strength required, they may be mixed with other liquors of little value, and still be sold to the drinker at the common price.

"He will not be released this time," replies St. Aulaire, with so much evident satisfaction as to strike one of the other two drinkers with astonishment.

There were no hard drinkers among the boys, all easy drinkers, men that never refused to drink.

104.The Great Drinkers of the North.

"You ought to regard the Port-drinker as a private individual, who has laid the wine in for himself, and who ought to have all the advantages of its enhanced value.

She had evidently been a hard drinker for years, as her face was of a brilliant carmine color.

This comes of neglect; a sober man, or at least one of a harder head, should have been put to the part;for, look you,'tis a character that need stand at least a gallon, since the rehearsals alone are enough to take a common drinker off his centre.

{109} Maris potor, the drinker up of the sea.