CHAPTER XV. 



NIGHT WATCHING. 



MEN who go out night watching with keepers 

 should not only be perfectly sober when 

 they start, but should also be prohibited from 

 taking any beer with them. I never put much 

 faith in the pluck of a man who was in the habit 

 of taking overmuch beer ; there are occasions 

 when a glass of beer does a man good, but it 

 should be taken after he has finished work. 

 Men who come to work boozed, and keep up 

 the booze whilst on duty, are only a nuisance 

 to you, because, if they attempt night watching 

 when full of beer, they are heavy and drowsy, 

 and, directly they sit quietly down in the hut, 

 go off to sleep. 



