" "And when O'Flynn said that about keeping his big demijohn out of the inventory and apart from the common stores, I sat on him.

of account for whiskey, covering extra demijohn to corrupt jailer.

That was old Peter's remark; and it sounded as if words failed him to add to it, but Burgin's wrath exploded in a torrent of bitter abuse of the man or men who had emptied that demijohn.

The Colonel handed the demijohn to his companion, and lit the solitary candle standing on its little block of wood, held in place between three half-driven nails.

Found dead in the road hugging a three-gallon demijohn.

As Flip turned to the corner to lift the demijohn, Fairley took occasion to kick the squaw with his foot, and indicate by extravagant pantomime that the bargain was not to be alluded to before the girl.

it wasn't I who opened that demijohn first.

" Jimmie picked up the demijohn and looked at it with lingering eyes.

This pedestal did duty for a neck; and upon it was placed a thing which, viewed as a whole, resembled a demijohn.

In a corner, where the Professor had left it, stood the demijohn of whisky.

He had not failed, however, to note that his coveted "medicine" was by no means exhausted, and to see Ham stow the demijohn carefully away, at last, under the half-deck of "The Swallow."

While wrapt in admiration of this interesting spot, the owner thereof was seized with a desire to yawn, to obtain which luxury it was requisite to throw back the demijohn into nearly a horizontal line, so as to relieve the lower end from its pressure on the cylinder.

But there he sat in terror, like a very young monkey in a wind-rocked tree, hardly daring to breathe, his arms clasped tight round the demijohn; but having Mac to deal with, the end of it was that he always got washed, and equally always he seemed to register a vow that, s'help him, Heaven!

He took out the cork and tipped up the demijohn, balancing it skilfully upon his right forearm.