“Be-or, be-or, be-or, all day long, with you Englishmen!′ ‘Nay,’ I replied, ’not all day long, if madam will excuse me. Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o’clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.”
