water-drinker

Coach Joe’s Tip: This one’s pretty simple: Become a water-drinker.

Here I was thinking I’m the world’s best water-drinker,” Lyman said.

Good, honest, kindly faces I saw at Charrade, but why this uncommonly pretty one hid herself, as she must have done whenever she saw this distinguished water-drinker coming to Charrade is a charade to me.

A water-drinker, provided he is a profess’d one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any consequence, or show of logic in it, “That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my Jenny’s—” ——The proposition does not strike one; on the contrary, it seems to run opposite to the natural workings of causes and effects—— But it shews the weakness and imbecility of human reason.

The Water-Drinker Speaks.—Go on drinking your wine, which has refreshed you all your life—what affair is it of yours if I have to be a water-drinker?