the water absolutely hisses down your red-hot gullet and is converted quite to steam in the miniature Tophet which you mistake for a stomach . Fill again , and tell me , on the word of an honest toper , did you ever , in cellar , tavern , or any kind of a dram-shop , spend the price of your children 's food for a swig half so delicious ? Now , for the first time these ten years , you know the flavor of cold water . Good-bye ; and whenever you are thirsty , remember that I keep a constant supply at the old stand . -- Who next ? -- Oh , my little friend , you are let loose from school and come hither to scrub your blooming face and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule , and other schoolboy troubles , in a draught from the town-pump ? Take it , pure as the current of your young life . Take it , and may your heart and tongue never be scorched with a fiercer thirst than now ! There , my dear child ! put down the cup and yield your place to this elderly gentleman who treads so tenderly over the paving-stones that I suspect he is afraid of breaking them . What ! he limps by without so much as thanking me , as if my hospitable offers were meant only for people who have no wine-cellars . -- Well , well , sir , no harm done , I hope ? Go draw the cork , tip the decanter ; but when your great toe shall set you a-roaring , it will be no affair of mine . If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout , it is all one to the town-pump . This thirsty dog with his red tongue lolling out does not scorn my hospitality , but stands on his hind legs and laps eagerly out of the trough . See how lightly he capers away again ! -- Jowler , did your worship ever have the gout ? Are you all satisfied ? Then wipe your mouths , my good friends , and while my spout has a moment 's leisure I will delight the town with a few historical remniscences .
In far antiquity , beneath a darksome shadow XXXXX venerable boughs , a spring bubbled out of the leaf-strewn earth in the very spot where you now behold me on the sunny pavement .
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