I am at the head of the fire department and one of the physicians to the board of health . As a keeper of the peace all water-drinkers will confess me equal to the constable . I perform some of the duties of the town-clerk by promulgating public notices when they are posted on my front . To speak within bounds , I am the chief person of the municipality , and exhibit , moreover , an admirable pattern to my brother-officers by the cool , steady , upright , downright and impartial discharge of my business and the constancy with which I stand to my post . Summer or winter , nobody seeks me in vain , for all day long I am seen at the busiest corner , just above the market , stretching out my arms to rich and poor alike , and at night I hold a lantern over my head both to show where I am and keep people out of the gutters . 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 XXXXX the taverns and stopped at the running brooks and well-curbs .
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