REFRESHMENTS IN DISGUISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 232, 2 October 1933, Page 5

REFRESHMENTS IN DISGUISE.

There k one advantage which people who are not abstainers have over teetotallers. As they roam about Britain they can gather many curious oldfashioned terms used by our beerdrinking forefathers. In Pembrokeshire, for instance, you meet with "sleevers." A eleever, the landlord will tell you while he is serving you with one, is" an illegal measure, and contains a third of a quart. In Bristol you call for a "gauger" (a pint), or a "blue of old George'e" served in a blue earthenware mug. At Ilfracombe you learn what a "schooner" is. At Swansea, the labourers who board the steamers inquire anxiously for "tops and bottoms" —that is, everything that has been left undrunk in the passengers' glasses and eaved up; or will even drmk_ legs and arms"—beer with no body in it. In Manchester you get a "hen that is guaranteed twenty years old, or a "chic-ken" warranted ten. In Worcestershire a "joey of liquor" is worth tw nence A curious contrast to the valoe J£S on -Joey" in Warwickshire.