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a cl, without canftraint or fharne, fuch fcenes as they 
would abhor when fober or in their fenfes ; and 
would endanger their ears and even their lives : 
but at lad their liquor running low, and being 
mod of them Tick through intoxication, they be- 
came more fober ; and now the dejedbed lifelefs 
lots would pawn every thing they were in pof- 
feffion of, for a mouthful of Ipirits to fettle their 
ftomachs, as they termed it. This was the time 
for the wenches to make their market, as they had 
the fortitude and fubdity by diffimulation and arti- 
fice to lave their fhare of the liquor during the 
frolick, and that by a very lingular flratagem ; for, 
at thefe riots, every fellow who joins in the club, 
has his own quart bottle of rum in his hand, hold- 
ing it by the neck fo fure, that he never loofes hold 
of it day or night, drunk or fober, as long as the 
frolick continues 5 and with this, his beloved. friend, 
he roves about continually, linging, roaring, and reel- 
ing to and fro, either alone, or arm in arm with a 
brother toper, prefenting his bottle to every one, 
offering a drink ; and is fure to meet his beloved 
female if he can, whom he compiaifantly begs to 
drink with him. But the modell fair, veiling her 
face in a mantle, refufes, at the beginning of the 
frolick; but he preffes and at laid infills. She being 
furnifhed with an empty bottle, concealed in her 
mantle, at la ft confents, and taking a good long 
draught, blufhes, drops her pretty face on her bo- 
fom, and artfully difcharges the rum into her bot- 
tle, and by repeating this artifice foon fills it; 
this fhe privately conveys to her fecret llore, and 
then returns to the jovial game, and fo on during 
the fefdval; and when the comic farce is over, 
the wench retails this precious cordial to them at her 
own price. 
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