And ten pounds, metamorphosed into quart bottles of beer, reared an immense and radiant vision, very like a brewery, inside his head.
By luck of birth possessed of a genial but soft disposition and a splendid constitution, his reputation was that for twenty years he had never missed his day's work nor his six daily quarts of bottled beer, even, as he bragged, when in the German islands, where each bottle of beer carried ten grains of quinine in solution as a specific against malaria.
Never's been drunk or sober in twenty years, and has never missed his six quarts of beer per diem.
Somebody had to pay for the six quarts, which, multiplied by thirty, amounted to a tidy sum in the course of the month; and, since that man was Dag Daughtry, he found it necessary to pass Michael inboard on the Makambo through a starboard port-hole.
"A steady hand and a true eye, boys; so let two
quarts be a bowman's portion." With shout and jest and snatch of song they streamed from the room, and all was peaceful once more in the "Rose de Guienne."
L'un de ces derniers est condamne a quitter la competition au Cap des
quarts mais militaires comme Fassis sont appeles a sortir le grand jeu et penser a l'autre competition, la Botola, dans l'espoir de passer l'eponge sur la mauvaise prestation de la saison ecoulee.
What Alissa
Quart calls "the failing middle class vortex" is indeed a powerful force, growing stronger every day, as she knows from personal as well as professional experience.