At this sultry noontide I am cupbearer to the parched populace , for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist . Like a dramseller on the mall at muster-day , I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice . -LSB- Footnote 1 : Essex and Washington streets , Salem . -RSB- Here it is , gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor ! Walk up , walk up , gentlemen ! Walk up , walk up ! Here is the superior stuff ! Here is the unadulterated ale of Father Adam -- better than Cognac , Hollands , Jamaica , strong beer or wine of any price ; here it is by the hogshead or the single glass , and not a cent to pay ! Walk up , gentlemen , walk up , and help yourselves ! It were a pity if all this outcry should draw no customers . Here they come . -- A hot day , gentlemen ! Quaff and away again , so as to keep yourselves in a nice cool sweat . -- You , my friend , will need another cupful to wash the dust out of your throat , if it be as thick there as it is on your cowhide shoes . I see that you have trudged half a score of miles to-day , and like a wise man have passed by the taverns and stopped at the running brooks and well-curbs . Otherwise , betwixt heat without and fire within , you would have been burnt to a cinder or melted down to nothing at all , in the fashion of a jelly-fish . Drink and make room for that other fellow , who seeks my aid to quench the fiery fever of last night 's potations , which he drained from no cup of mine . -- Welcome , most rubicund sir ! You and I have been great strangers hitherto ; nor , to confess the truth , will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy till the fumes of your breath be a little less potent .
Mercy XXXXX you , man !
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