I ought to have had some in the house, and then I shouldn't ha' been put to this trouble; but I drink none myself, and so I often forget to keep it indoors.' 'You are allowed to help yourself, I suppose, that you may not inform where their hiding-place is ?' 'Well, no; not that particularly; but I may take any if I want it.

So help yourself.' 'I will, to oblige you, since you have a right to it,' murmured the minister; and though he was not quite satisfied with his part in the performance, he rolled one of the 'tubs' out from the corner into the middle of the tower floor.

'How do you wish me to get it out--with a gimlet, I suppose ?' 'No, I'll show you,' said his interesting companion; and she held up with her other hand a shoemaker's awl and a hammer.

'You must never do these things with a gimlet, because the wood-dust gets in; and when the buyers pour out the brandy that would tell them that the tub had been broached.
An awl makes no dust, and the hole nearly closes up again.

Now tap one of the hoops forward.' Stockdale took the hammer and did so.
'Now make the hole in the part that was covered by the hoop.' He made the hole as directed.