as if that wasn t enough in another character em au off in a hundred goes i as if that t enough us and well named too eats six millions worth english money in seven months takes it easy but upon my soul to a old bird like myself these are and even now that is i don t see a way to our ourselves mr added as he turned his pensive steps towards the bower and shook his head i didn t think this morning there was half so many in print but i m in for it now i vl cut thk jolly already as a of a a liad long settled down into a state of hale in its whole constitution it had not a floor and hardly a straight line but it had and would yet y a better trimmed building many a public house it was a narrow of windows heaped one upon another as you might heap as many with a crazy wooden impending over tne water indeed the whole house of the complaining flag staff on the over the water but seemed to have got into the condition of a hearted who has paused so long on the brink that he will never go in at all this description applies to the river of the six the back of the though the chief entrance was there so contracted that it merely represented in its with the front the handle of a flat iron set upright on its end this handle stood at the bottom of a wilderness of court and alley which pressed so hard and close upon the six fellowship as to leave the not an inch of ground beyond its door for this reason in combination with the ct that the house was all but afloat at high water when the had a wash the linen subjected to that operation might usually be seen drying on lines stretched across the reception rooms and bed chambers the wood forming the chimney pieces beams floors and doors of the six jolly seemed in its old age with confused memories of its in many places it had become and according to the manner of old trees knots started out of it and here and l ere it seemed to twist into some likeness of boughs in this state of second childhood it had an air of being in its own way about its early life not without reason was it often asserted by the regular of the that when the light shone fall upon the grain of certain and particularly upon an old comer cupboard of wood in the bar you might trace little forests there and tiny trees like the parent tree in leaf the bar of the six fellowship was a bar to soften the human breast the available space in it was not much larger than a coach but no one could have wished the bar bigger that space was so in by little and bv radiant with grapes in and by in and by in baskets and by the polite beer that made low bows when customers were served with beer and by the cheese in a snug comer and by the landlady s own small table in a near the fire with the doth laid this haven was divided from the rough world by a glass and a half door with a leaden sill upon it for the convenience of resting liquor but over this door the bar s so forth that drank there standing in a dark and passage where they were shouldered by other passing in and out they always appeared to drink under an delusion that they were in the bar itself for the rest both the tap and parlor of the six jolly gave upon the river and had red curtains the noses of the regular customers and were provided with comfortable fireside tin like of sugar loaf hats made in that shape that they might with their pointed ends seek out for glowing in the depths of the red coals when th your ale or for you drinks and dog s nose the first of these humming was a of the which through an inscription on its door posts gently appealed to your feelings as the early house for it would seem that must always be taken early though whether for any more distinctly reason than that as the early bird catches tlie worm so the early catches the customer cannot here be resolved it only remains to add that in the handle of the flat iron and opposite the bar was a very little room like a three hat which no direct ray of sun moon or star ever penetrated but which was r as a with comfort and retirement and on the door oi which was therefore painted its name miss sole proprietor and manager of the reigned supreme on her throne the bar and a man must have drunk himself mad drunk indeed if he thought he could contest a point with her being known on her own authority as miss abbey some water side heads which the water were none of the dearest notions that because of her and firmness she was named after or in some sort related to the abbey at westminster but abbey was only short for hy which name miss had been at some sixty and odd years before now you mind you said miss abbey with emphatic forefinger over the half the don t want you at all and would rather by r have your room than your company but if you were as here as you are not you t even then have another drop of drink here this night after this present pint of beer so make uie most of it but you know miss this was su very meekly though if i behave you can t help serving me miss cant i 