Two Buckets of Lager

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 7 August 1886, Page 3

Two Buckets of Lager

A stonecutter whose office adjoined his stoneyard, was seated in his office when a friend called upon him, and they discussed several topics together, among them the question as to what extent lager beer v\raa an intoxicant. The stone cutter maintained that beer . was not intoxicating, while his friend maintained the opposite. The stonecutter said; '-There is a man afc work . in the yard ■ (pointing- to a-IJr'awny-chested German) who could drink a bucket^ (three v "gallons) of beer at one • sitting -and feel none the worse for it." The friend doubted, and a wager was t inade an4ithia : ..wprJmian-. called,, who, when asked if he could drink that, bucket (pointing, to a water bucket) full of beer at one sitting, replied j . •«« Veil, I don'd know ; I lets you know ! after a vile.". The German went away, -aha\ after remaining fifteen minutes, returned, and said, *' Yes I can trink dot beer." The bucket of beer was -procured and placed before the German who very Bbon absorbed the last drop, arose from his -seat, wiping his irib ath with his sleeve and was walking away with a firm step, when his employer recalled him and "'said' to him, " See here, my friend and I have some curiosity to know why you did not drink the t>eer when you- were first asked.". The. German re* plied, >Vell,'l don'd know I could trink: it, so I yen out und'triak a' bucked, | den I know I could d6'it."-7-W. srin5 r in " Harper's/Magazine" for July.