I b'lieve most any doctor'd advise a jorum of rum for a man in my fix, to restore the intellects." I took him back into the grog-shop and bought him rum, taking a very little myself, with a great deal of blackstrap and water.

Bill's symptoms were such as to drive me to despair.

He sat looking at me like an old owl, and finally took my glass and sipped a little from it.
"Hain't you never goin' to grow up ?" he asked; and poured out a big glass of the pure quill for me, and fiercely ordered me to drink it.

By this time I was desperate; so I smashed his glass and mine; and taking him by the throat I shook him and told him that if he did not take me to the hump-backed man or to the drayman, and that right off, I'd shut off his wind for good.

When he clinched with me I lifted him from the floor, turned him upside down, and lowered him head-first into an empty barrel.
By this time the saloon-keeper was on the spot making all sorts of threats about having us both arrested, and quite a crowd had gathered.