... afternoon as best they might. The name of the hostelry was the Cock and Bottle, sad its croaky signboard displayed a portrait of • vivid coloured chanticleer gazing intently at • black bottle; but the establishment was familiarly and better known as Purring ...

... asserted himself by presenting admissions to all and sundry of the Drizzleton public who had presented themselves at the Cock and Bottle during the past hour or two. _ _ Queer 31d Ash that, said Bruce Carnaby, when they were once more in their own particular ...

... Mr. Atherstone, child. It's nearly two o'clock. . . . . Which it was—an unheard-of hour for Drizzlehm, where the Cock and Bottle rarely saw &customer after ten o'clock at night ; but the landlord had been well paid, and everybody was in high good ...