... wet afternoon as best they might. The name of the hostelry was the Cock and Bot le, and Its croaky signboard displayed portrait a vivid coloured chanticleer gazing intently black bottle; but tlie establishment was familiarly and ben er known “ Purring ...

... qualities impc-rteri bonled by W. ft A. Gilbey, all corks and bottles w.ll bear the.r seal,-, brands, 11.,^ undermemioned delicate Wind. «uch •» Clareu. it it only to put the cock to . Bottle will alao bstrv miatarad label of till* »hape, with the name ...

... landlord went, and Mr. Whiffin’s company were speedily regaled with hot liquor and biscuits, and thought the landlord of the Cock and Bottle the most, generous man they had ever seen. Presently that gentleman returned the parlour, and informed his guests that ...

... morning -to Mr. Atheretone, child. It's nearly two o'clock”. Which it was—ea unheard-of hour for Drizzleton, 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 humour ...

... had asserted himself presenting admissions to aU and sundry of the Drizzleton public who had presented themselves the Cock and Bottle during the past hour two. M Queer old fish that,* said Bruce Carnaby, when they were once more in their own particular ...