As the faithful high-priestess of the coffee-pot she was always the first to taste her own brew.

I imagine that it was by no means the last that the German authorities heard from it, for when I related the story to the Ambassador some time later I saw a characteristic Brand Whitlock letter a-brewing.

While I was making a fresh brew he said to me: "You must forgive my giving my men Hades right before you, but they deserved it, and know it, and under the circumstances I imagine they did not mind taking it.

Let Dionysus and his crew, Garlanded, drain their fevered brew, And in the orgiastic bowl Drug and besot the sacred soul; This simple country cup we drain Knows not the ghosts of sin and pain, No fates or furies follow him Who sips from its cream-mantled rim.

And there we played single-stick, smite-jacket, skittles, bowlsaye, and drank deep of the city alethe very thinnest brew that was ever passed by a bribed and muzzy ale-taster.

Whilst Cook was laid up with his hand, and Mr. Parker was engaged with the survey, some of the men were employed brewing, and either the brew was stronger than usual or, the officer's eye being off them, they indulged too freely, for on 20th August it is noted that three men were confined to the deck for drunkenness and mutinous conduct, and the next day the ringleader was punished by being made to "run the Gantelope.

" [220] Our forefathers esteemed the March brewing; we the October.

Individual instances can be, and shall be, produced; but how can we extract and exhibit the minute particles that colour every thread of the texture?how extract the impalpable atoms that have fermented the whole brewing?

"And I can return the compliment," was my reply, as we all gathered round a brew of tea to exchange news and compare notes.

Then you gets the poker in your hand as you says, "A-brewing of egg shells."

"It was a huge vat, large enough to hold a whole Christmas brew.

Mr. Negget drank gratefully and praised the brew.

But war is war, and when we have to face Shortage in tea as well as bread and boots 'Tis well to teach us how we may replace The foreign brew by native substitutes, Extracted from a vegetable base In various wholesome plants and herbs and fruits, "Arranged and blended," very much like teas, To suit our "gastric idiosyncrasies.

" "If the stuff's like lead in your bottle" The General stopped to sample the new brew.

He pulled a bouquet of dry herbs from where it hung in a corner, under the low ceiling, and set a handful brewing in water, where the coals were golden-yellow with heat.

" If I hadn't been afraid of spilling the healing brew, I have little doubt that I should have given an impatient gesture.

Fire in every horrible form: pits of flame waving in the wind; liquid metal-flames writhing in tortuous streams through the sand; wide caldrons filled with boiling fire, over which bent ghastly wretches stirring the strange brewing; and through all, crowds of half-clad men, looking like revengeful ghosts in the red light, hurried, throwing masses of glittering fire.

You've had too much of these French wines of late, Amos, lad. Come down and try a real Boston brewing with a double stroke of malt in the mash tub.

So, when the dew began to fall, there arose from them a heady brew, distilled from blossoming milkweed and fruiting wild raspberry canes and mountain laurel and dried pine needles.

No clothes to mend, that you could sew, No beer that's worth the brewing? Then stay at home, sometimes, at least, My counsel, don't defy it, A little rest's as good's a feast, If you don't believe it, try it.

[Sings while they are getting ready] "Our maids last night, Our pretties last night, They brewed us a brew of the beer last night.

But that other is a devil of a laugh, mostly made of chuckles that seem to bubble off a Hell-brew of disillusionment, and you get the impression that he is laughing at himselfcynically laying bare the vanity and fallibility of his own mental processesand forecasting self-discipline.