HARD TIMES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 226, 24 September 1907, Page 3

HARD TIMES.

While passing a well-known brewery about 5 a.m., a passer-by saw, leaning from one of the windows, an old man whom he had known from childhood but had not seen for years. He had been employed practically

all his life at this one situation, his occupation being to pump water, upon inquiring as to his neaith, and whether he got plenty of beer, the friend received the reply: "Well, master, I feel well, thank goodness; but I , can assure you tilings ain't nothin' near so: good here as they used to be, that is in the shape o' a drop o 3 beer. I've only had 17 pints thfs mornin'. At one time I could get as much as I liked. Things ain't nothin' near so good; the case is altered now."