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aft, without conftraint or fhame, fuch fcenes as they 
would abhor when fober or in their fenfes 3 and 
■would endanger their ears and even their lives 1 
but at lafl their liquor running low, nd being 
molt of them Tick through intoxication, they be- 
came more fober; and now the dejedted lifelefs 
fots would pawn every thing they were in pof~ 
feflion of, for a mouthful of fpirits 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 flibtilty by dilfimulation and arti- 
fice to fave their fhare of the liquor during the 
frolick, and that by a very lingular ftratagem ; 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 ; and with this, his beloved friend, 
he roves about continually, finging, 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 3 and is fure to meet his beloved 
female if he can, whom he complaifantly begs to 
drink with him. But the modeft fair, veiling her 
face in a mantle, reflifes, at the beginning of the 
frolick 3 but he preffes and at laft infills. She being 
furnifhed with an empty bottle, concealed in her 
mantle, at laft confents, and taking a good long 
draught, blufhes, drops her pretty face on her bo- 
fio m, and artfully difeharges the rum into her bot- 
tle, and by repeating this artifice foon fills it : 
this (he privately conveys to her fecret {lore, and 
th^n returns to the jovial game, and fo on during 
the festival ; and when the comic farce is over, 
the wench retails this precious cordial to them at her 
own price. 
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