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ALL LV A GARDEN FAIR.
fill up, fill up all ; let us drink like the good
folk of Chinon ; let us drink without stopping,
except to eat.'
With these rollicking and Eabelaisian ex-
hortations did M. Philipon stimulate the revel-
lers and astonish his daughter, who saw, to her
amazement, the bottle fly from hand to hand
and the young men pour continually more wine
into their glasses. They poured as Httle as they
could, and it seemed as if the bottle never would
get finished. When you added water to the
proportion of three to one, you practically dis-
guised the sourness of the wine, though you
made the water thin. At last Allen, who could
bear the thing no longer, and who trembled
lest Tommy should say something that would
annoy their host—indeed he was beginning to
look dangerous— poured out all that was left
into his tumbler, and heroically drank it off at
a gulp. Claire looked in terror to see some of
the signs of intoxication. The young men
might, if her father went on plying them with
strong drink, roll under the tal)le, or have to